Chapter 1746 - Sentencing
Added 2026-01-20 01:00:06 +0000 UTCComments
Can't spell Justice without Juice.
carson
2026-02-06 22:09:22 +0000 UTC745?. It's published but not on this list of the novel
campione_p
2026-02-04 18:15:28 +0000 UTCDoes this mean that the colony can finally turn slugs into essence?
ManguKing
2026-02-03 15:29:05 +0000 UTCNah, stuff that nonsensical moral high ground crap. The church needs to know they can be milked for their zip just like monsters can. They need to know what it’s like to be hunted. That fear and anxiety. To have their illusions and delusions ripped away from them and their faith shattered. To realize that, perhaps, the universe doesn’t give two cosmic shits about their views or faith and that they aren’t at all as special as they deluded themselves into believing. Besides, they aren’t even to give him a taste of his own medicine. They aren’t even simply getting even. Imagine, your little sister is happily and excitedly going to market for the first time. She gets abducted by some priest who then performs a “holy” ritual to literally slowly squeeze ever last memory, experience, thought, and moment of life from her. All because she looks different and comes from somewhere else and has no rights. You’d want that person to experience exactly what that is like so they, before they die, can intimately know exactly how she felt in her last moments. Bottom line, the moral high ground is a bs way of inflating one’s ego while being unwilling to reciprocate disrespect due to fear.
Casper0173
2026-01-27 02:06:50 +0000 UTCIf they go through with it they are no different from the Church. Kill the guy sure. But do this, and they are just as bad as the Church. If they think what Path are doing is evil, they are now equally evil themselves. Now, if they are fine being evil, go ahead. But no more complaining that the Church are horrible for creating xp soup.
KopiCAT
2026-01-23 22:57:25 +0000 UTCTyftc
Sean Bloodgood
2026-01-21 13:12:36 +0000 UTCYou think it’s a good idea to dismember a high priest and ransom him back to the church because maybe they won’t bother restoring his limbs? Your nuts. The bastard would be back to targeting them 10 times over. Anthony knows what he knows now, he knows this man is responsible for the ritual and is the main reason the colony has been targeted by the church. Nobody can even say for sure whether or not he was taken or killed in battle and even if they did it’s completely just he be subjected to the same fate he subjected other sapients to. It’s not “edge lord” to wage war on enemies who have come to exterminate you.
Silent Consent
2026-01-21 05:41:04 +0000 UTCThanks so much! Anthony has been extremely lax and it is only going to hurt the colony. This is perfect.
Silent Consent
2026-01-21 05:34:49 +0000 UTCI disagree with all the edgelords and their, "if you don't kill every enemy in your way, you're a weak bitch!" mantra. Sure, it'd be nice to kill the bastard. But Anthony is supposed to be deployed in the 5th for the true war. There's no reason to be looking for another one in the 4th. In fact, the whole point of this op is to provide a deterrence to the bad guys to get them to stand down. And ransoming a broken LV1 quadriplegic High Priest back is as daunting as a warning gets. Unlike the Colony, the Church will unlikely invest massive resources required to fixing the evil bastard. After all, ambitious rats like him are a dime a dozen there. So I doubt he'll ever make a comeback. He'll have to live out the rest of his life broken and useless.
Runaway_Cactuar
2026-01-20 16:59:56 +0000 UTCTftc! Is Chapter 1745 missing from the collection?
Private Writer
2026-01-20 15:48:16 +0000 UTCI think they'll take his essence up to the point where he becomes a lvl one all over again draining every skill every lvl leaving him as a average human then send his ass back to the church that wouldn't kill him but it would drain draining decades of progress away from him resetting him and sending a message to the church or they just drain him dry completely
Kirk Foster
2026-01-20 14:43:55 +0000 UTCWell at minimum they’ll turn his arm into essence which is arguably worse than death for him. They’ll probably turn him entirely into essence but if they don’t it’ll still be horrible for him. I understand what you mean though, it’s definitely frustrating but I think in this case the author is aware of the potential backlash if he just lets him go. It would be best, in my opinion, for him to change paths to follow the ants and be the ultimate betrayal
Evitox
2026-01-20 12:58:47 +0000 UTCI really cannot stand stories that let evil people live when they do such horrible things. I really expect them to chop his limbs off, regrow them with healing, and continue this until he's utterly broken before chuck his near corpse body to extract the rest.
Vampiric Dust
2026-01-20 12:01:19 +0000 UTCIt would be Brilliant who'd figure out how to drain experience without killing the subject. And wouldn't that be a deterrent? 😂 The church cannot argue that they killed him, since they didn't and they'd be hard-pressed to argue that the colony did something wrong, since it's what they are doing. I'm sure they are going to argue that point anyway. Furthermore, though, draining a non-monster might show the rest of the world the potential of the church's techniques. It's a wholly different matter if you have a huge organisation that can really only harm monsters or one that could kill any human and process them into resources. Similarly, there will be privileged people who will go and kidnap sapients to drain their essence and strengthen themselves if the specific technique becomes known. Even if not, just the show plausibilty might inspire a whole range of inhuman experiments.
Maximus
2026-01-20 08:58:42 +0000 UTCSo just the one arm will be used? I have the impression that they are not really going to kill him
Heara17
2026-01-20 08:21:22 +0000 UTCBRILLIANT!!
Paul S.
2026-01-20 06:17:25 +0000 UTCMay the sister rest in peace knowing she is avenged and forever remembered by her sisters. For. The. Colony.
NyxWell
2026-01-20 06:12:19 +0000 UTCHe is so f🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥
Marter
2026-01-20 04:50:50 +0000 UTCI can read that in Jeff Hayes' voice for Anthony really easy.
UNKNOWN
2026-01-20 03:33:21 +0000 UTCFOR THE COLONY!
Rahsheem Reid
2026-01-20 03:18:18 +0000 UTCYou can’t see it but I’m smiling ear to ear.
Yanni
2026-01-20 03:09:52 +0000 UTCShe is avenged.
alt31415
2026-01-20 02:38:15 +0000 UTCHow funny would it be if it turns out you can get like. Wayyyyyy more juice from higher level humans. like... say... priests. Who juice monsters for fun. Bet they have LOADS of juice in em.
Bethany Bluebird
2026-01-20 02:30:32 +0000 UTC[Squeeze] the [Juice]. Every drop.
alt31415
2026-01-20 02:28:24 +0000 UTCProblem with that is it would get a LOT of innocent people murdered. IRL people already hurt each other for money and social status. How bad do you think it would be if they could do so to literally gain magical superhuman powers?
alt31415
2026-01-20 02:28:04 +0000 UTCOoh. They should release the method of exactly how to turn humans into elixir to…everybody. It would take away the churches monopoly on elixir and it would get the old races murdering each other.
Hayden Leech
2026-01-20 02:24:48 +0000 UTC“but sentencing him for a completely legal act? “ - Does this dense motherfucker REALLY think the civilization of sapient ants, would consider kidnapping and murdering a sapient ant, legal? “[Plenty of evil things are legal,] the ant refuted him, not really paying attention. [For example, what you did to my sister.] “ - YOU FUCKING TELL HIM, ANTHONY! “Once he did, he felt the contents of his stomach rising up to the back of his throat. “ - Oh? What’s wrong, Alir? Does the idea of this being done to you seem… horrible? Excruciating? Does it make you scared? Funny how the shoe is on the other foot now. Like, out and out war to kill ants is bad, but something about capturing someone to kill them - even without the 'slow and painful' agony - sticks in my craw extra bad.
alt31415
2026-01-20 02:21:58 +0000 UTCDark Anthony literally possessed me for a sec, as I went HEHEHEHEHEHEHE for a sec there irl. HAHAHAHAHA LETS GOOOOOOOOOO, ok i miss leeroy already..
Kyle_Tekehe
2026-01-20 02:12:03 +0000 UTCJUICE. JUICE. JUICE. JUICE. JUICE. GIVE US THE JUUUUUUUUUICE.
Bethany Bluebird
2026-01-20 01:54:33 +0000 UTCThis is very much the punishment Alir deserves for torturing the Colony member in Silver City in order to extract her essence. Now they just need to send the essence they extract from Alir back to the Church of the Path with a note explaining what it is. Poetic and totally justified.
Buck
2026-01-20 01:52:49 +0000 UTCDark Anthony has his Day
Yeslek Nnamhctits
2026-01-20 01:48:59 +0000 UTCSatisfying conclusion.
R.E. McCoy
2026-01-20 01:44:37 +0000 UTCThis exactly. How’s the church gonna react when the colony threatens to release their great secret to the public?
Roombot
2026-01-20 01:39:18 +0000 UTCBrilliant is the kind of ant that can be sure something will work purely based on theory.
Sand
2026-01-20 01:32:46 +0000 UTCWait, how did Brilliant figure out how to do it to sapients? I don’t think she would’ve been testing the theory on someone other than this guy but she made it sound like she’d already done it Also, I love the implication that the church has been trying to do that. The sheer hypocrisy is unparalleled.
Roombot
2026-01-20 01:27:05 +0000 UTCExactly. Can't have civilization with everyone you meet see you as menu item. Who needs to go in dangerous dungeon if you can squeeze your neighbours.
Anthony Romanov
2026-01-20 01:26:33 +0000 UTCIts more of religious damage. We can produce elixir from monsters and monsters only because this is the will of God. And now they will have prove that God of ants have a say in this matters.
Navarog
2026-01-20 01:26:06 +0000 UTCI absolutely love the non Colony point of view chapters. Yes, they may include undeserved aversion to the Colony and its species, and yet they present such a unique perspective on Pangera and the Colony that the chapters seem to fly by. I've internalized the ant mindset so comfortably that what they can fo doesn't seem as absurd or weighty as when described from a humanoid perspective. Anyway, i'm not saying i dislike one over the other, just that I FEEL the weight from the third person humanoid perspective more. Thank you very much for the chapter and keep up the phenomenal work❤️❤️
James
2026-01-20 01:24:50 +0000 UTCMy money is on them figuring out how it tastes, and then feeding it back to him to put him through the process again and again…
forwad Nothing
2026-01-20 01:21:37 +0000 UTCLOUD quiet down you damn priest sheesh
Scott Faulkner
2026-01-20 01:21:00 +0000 UTCYessss!!!!! Justice!!!!
Sly Trickster
2026-01-20 01:19:34 +0000 UTCYESSSSSS
Roombot
2026-01-20 01:18:54 +0000 UTCHumbling isn't it alir. You looked at them, talked to them, saw the amazing things they made, say the large amount of trade that they did for the good of all and then evaluated them as lesser, worthy as nothing but a light snack. Even after doing such hateful things to one of their own you continued to hunt and hurt them to the detriment of your own kind. Now you get to feel what she felt, what she died for. The terrible thing is The Colony probably won't kill you. Just drain you a little then give you back to the church... with the details of what they did. Then tell all of those trade partners how to do the ritual that has been holding up the church elite for centuries.
Scott Faulkner
2026-01-20 01:18:10 +0000 UTCOh I am intrigued how World will react that Colony "solved" "non-monster" problem with Juicer. And how much they will look other way if Colony threatening to release it to all shady underground dealers? Strong and weak non-monsters would be hunted to extract their experience. Pure pure Chaos! It like Social Nuclear Bomb. Once released to public there won't be stopping it again!
Anthony Romanov
2026-01-20 01:16:44 +0000 UTCHe's only losing an arm to the ritual, there's still more limbs for Crinis to rend
Codered999
2026-01-20 01:15:54 +0000 UTCIt would be cooler if instead of using the essence themselves, when they return the other prisoners and Alir isn't with them, they can do a dramatic reveal and say "Oh we didn't forget about HIM", and have brilliant walk out with a tray holding the jar of his extracted essence. That would be peak revenge.
Tyler Hoover
2026-01-20 01:15:10 +0000 UTCOhhhh I love this! Thanks boss
Theweird12345
2026-01-20 01:13:41 +0000 UTCWell, if people didn’t want to go to war with the ants before, some certainly will now if it gets out they can use humans as experience IV’s now lol
Grey Law
2026-01-20 01:13:19 +0000 UTCAh karma. Honestly threatening to release the “recipe” to the non-monster civilizations might be a good nuclear deterrent. Would probably cause a lot of infighting and those civilizations would probably do a lot to prevent it
Shaitan
2026-01-20 01:12:28 +0000 UTCMan anytime the pov is outside Anthony, especially if it’s one of Anthony’s enemies, he really is terrifying.
Grey Law
2026-01-20 01:09:53 +0000 UTCI was hoping he would get reduced. That's awesome.
Andrew Woodard
2026-01-20 01:09:51 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter! A fitting punishment, though I was hoping he would get some Crinis time, oh well maybe later.
blucube 14
2026-01-20 01:07:34 +0000 UTCWow thats deserved but dark
Cory Olson
2026-01-20 01:07:08 +0000 UTCFilthy spider, you and your eight legs.
UNKNOWN
2026-01-20 01:06:24 +0000 UTCHehhehehehehhe
Hayden Leech
2026-01-20 01:06:01 +0000 UTCYes!
Koala Man
2026-01-20 01:05:56 +0000 UTCTftc
Black Rose
2026-01-20 01:04:57 +0000 UTCExcellent work
Angry Spider
2026-01-20 01:02:52 +0000 UTCDEVOUR THE SINNERS ARM RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS UNWILLING EYES, LET HIM WITNESS THE FOLLY OF HIS FALSE PATH, STRIP HIM DOWN TILL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT!!!
UNKNOWN
2026-01-20 01:00:12 +0000 UTC
