Chapter 39. Why Do We Fall?
Added 2025-02-13 06:13:52 +0000 UTCGhouls.
Adom's elementary school teacher,
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Love the pacing of this chapter. Thanks!
K
2025-02-24 22:44:20 +0000 UTCThe only problem I have with this chapter is Valiant talking about dark roast as the best coffee. Light and ultralight roasts are better at bringing out the true flavor of the beans and a more nuanced flavor in general. There's not really a specialty roaster today that does dark roasts often.
xXMetrinSlerbaXx
2025-02-22 19:24:53 +0000 UTCGreat chapter - it was way past time Helios exited the stage. Some minor points below: The golem can supposedly move unbelievably fast. Why doesn't Adom simply tell the golem to carry him when injured ? > [01 day, 9 hours, 49 minutes] Why did he get the heart-attack a day early ? > Above them, Helios hovered near the ceiling Since when can Helios fly ? He just did an air-dive before this sentence too. He seems to gain new capabilities to upgrade his [Boss Level]. > Their food consisted entirely of the chicken Valiant conjured How is Valiant conjuring chicken ? > He sighed, looking at the roses scattered around him. Where did the roses come from ? Were they always there ?
lenkite
2025-02-22 02:44:20 +0000 UTCTHANK YOU
Pete
2025-02-20 05:09:04 +0000 UTCLet's spoil a little bit of the (deserved) praise. Although this is a nice wrap-up of Helios and didn't introduce another new story arc and also combined story telling with levelling up in a 'natural' narrative, there are still a few advices/comments I think. It is a pity that this possibility wasn't introduced earlier. We have now had three possibilities of an 'impossible' cure. The one from the future that didn't come to fruition, the one from the elixer spend on Bob and this one that was discovered and resolved within part of this chapter. It seems wild in the first place that none of those were discovered by somebody else. Though I like the way the resolution is worked out in the details, it is still another example of the whole story not evolving on a meta level. There are so many opportunities to intertwine different aspects of the story, yet it keeps moving from one incident to the next. And that is worrisome when looking at the resolution of the total story or story arc. The ingredients are good, the care for detail is good, there are some very nice aspects to the levelling up, yet the creativity in blending loose ends and other story lines into surprising story twists can be on a higher level IMHO, considering the obvious talent
Storyflower
2025-02-19 01:17:51 +0000 UTCGod Damn indeed! I understand all the comments now! I was actually really lucky! I managed to set this down in the short beginning parts before Helios appeared otherwise I would have read that in the middle of the night instead of sleeping then lol. Great chapter I found 2 typo's but sadly did not have the wherewithal to remember where sorry. This was an extremely grippind and satisfying conlusion! I actually still stand by my prior point that the way you start this arc make it feel a bit too similar to the forced Labyrinth Arc and too quickly after that went so long, but damn if the conclusion and payoff are not perhaps the most satisfying thing I read in months!
Gopard
2025-02-16 11:13:25 +0000 UTCWell holy shit... The funny thing is I'm always complaining about short chapters but have yet to manage to finish this one... However I just saw that he meets his parents in one of the new chapters and I wanted to at least be certain when I go for this read I want to catch up at least to a point where Adom leaves the dungeon. Now I guess I have no more excuses, some time today this monster of a chapter must be devoured lmao!! But thats going to take me at least 45min if not an hour even though I would say I'm about through with 10% already lol. Would definitely HIGHLY recommend posting this as 2 chappys on RR people tend to dislike giant chapters there in my experience xD
Gopard
2025-02-16 09:08:45 +0000 UTCOh yeah, I was planning exactly that!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-16 07:57:01 +0000 UTCGOD DAMN, that felt good to read. Finally that fucking bastard kicked it!
Broseph
2025-02-15 06:35:51 +0000 UTCOh author please consider regeneration slowly fixing his eyes. I have worn glasses since the third grade and I can only imagine how amazing it would feel to slowly get better.
Hellnhavoc
2025-02-14 22:16:26 +0000 UTCI thought to my dismay that the vampire and the disease arc was gonna drag on forevermore forevermore. Ten out of ten way to Finnish this arc.👍 ✓ 😎
Chaz Baz
2025-02-14 21:07:15 +0000 UTCHaha, true. Baby steps, we'll get there, hopefully
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:50:30 +0000 UTCThat was actually part of the inspiration lol. Thank you for reading!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:49:58 +0000 UTCGlad to read that :) Looking forward to you reading it!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:49:29 +0000 UTCThank you so much!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:49:06 +0000 UTCYou're awesome!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:48:56 +0000 UTCOh, it'll hopefully be worth the wait, I set it up to be an exciting finale
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:48:44 +0000 UTCThank you, Arun!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:47:49 +0000 UTCThank you so much!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:47:40 +0000 UTCThank you!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:47:28 +0000 UTCThank you! That's so nice to read
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:47:22 +0000 UTCThank you! next goal, 25k chapter, lol
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:46:55 +0000 UTCThank you so much!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:46:26 +0000 UTCFixed. Thank you!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:46:01 +0000 UTCChapters are gonna rain on you guys until you ask me to stop
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:45:50 +0000 UTCThank you! Don't worry at all, I ask for feedback exactly for this. Totally get that it can be a bit annoying when the story seems to go a certain way, but I'm glad it was worth the frustration lol
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:45:21 +0000 UTCOh yeah, my bad. Just fixed it, thanks for the heads up, and for reading, too :)
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:43:52 +0000 UTCThat's so nice to read, thanks for reading!
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-14 11:43:18 +0000 UTCIt’s magical version of a biological function. Visible real time cell regeneration as depicted in this is absolutely *Magic^TM
Guilty343
2025-02-13 23:15:29 +0000 UTCGreat chapter and amazing story! I'm hooked.
Dakota Sherry
2025-02-13 22:26:46 +0000 UTCBut it is not a skill. It is a biological function.
Bookworm bibliophile
2025-02-13 20:40:56 +0000 UTCIt’s in the skill description, it levels from use ie. Healing damage
Guilty343
2025-02-13 20:13:56 +0000 UTCGreat chapter! There's a reference to Shadowfade syndrome... I'm guessing that was from an earlier draft where it got renamed to Lifedrain Syndrome?
Abram Thau
2025-02-13 19:54:06 +0000 UTCThis was well done. I had a bunch of complaints I know. But man you delivered. This was extremely satisfying and surprising. I applaud you for this and thank you.
Hellnhavoc
2025-02-13 19:32:34 +0000 UTCAmazing chapter the author should immediately release another as a surprise fr
Jayden Southworth
2025-02-13 18:37:59 +0000 UTCI mean. After Wandering Inn or Mother of Learning, 15k is a drop in the bucket.
Luckbox
2025-02-13 16:37:37 +0000 UTCTypo: Exited>>excited
Luckbox
2025-02-13 16:34:57 +0000 UTCHow could the regeneration level up?
Bookworm bibliophile
2025-02-13 16:19:32 +0000 UTCThis was an amazing chapter! Wonderful way to tie in the cure and taking care of the Terminator known as Helios!
Michael Owens
2025-02-13 15:08:51 +0000 UTCOutstanding! Thanks for not leaving us hanging on the fight. And wow on the ~15k word chapter!
DB
2025-02-13 14:10:45 +0000 UTCGreat chapter! I did not see that solution coming at all.
Maze
2025-02-13 13:12:52 +0000 UTCI wouldn't change a thing, this was perfect :)
Maze
2025-02-13 13:11:25 +0000 UTCAmazing chapter
HornsOfTheseus
2025-02-13 10:59:37 +0000 UTCGreat chapter!
Samuel McCarren
2025-02-13 10:39:05 +0000 UTCI love this chapter. Amazingly well written.
Arun
2025-02-13 09:19:10 +0000 UTCExcellent work, thanks! I'm just wondering how much of a mess he'll return to when he gets home. Have they cleaned up Gale yet, for example? Looking forward to reading all about that.
Simon Hoerder
2025-02-13 09:06:47 +0000 UTCFuck yes, that was awesome!
Nimps
2025-02-13 09:03:24 +0000 UTCThat was a great chapter
Mike L
2025-02-13 08:43:57 +0000 UTCFantastic chapter. Honestly I really liked it, I like details. Looking forward to the boss fight / dungeon escape!
Bapp
2025-02-13 07:47:34 +0000 UTCThat was a great chapter! Reminds me of Iron Man 1 when Tony is cobbling together his first power source/makeshift armor
Nick Youngstrom
2025-02-13 06:57:53 +0000 UTCI am not sure if the transmutation explanation felt too technical, and I'm 99% sure I'll edit the chapter again, so, please, do let me know if you think the hard magic system is a bit too... hard?
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-13 06:36:35 +0000 UTCThis took much longer than I had hoped, and I'm sorry for the delay. I had to mix two very long long chapters, cut a lot of scenes in them, while keeping it coherent, which resulted in a 15k words chapter. I hope this is enjoyable. It marks the end of the illness arc, which I thought deserved a bit more... originality than having him just make a potion. The next chapter, we will be resuming the world's arc, and ending the book in a few chapters, and start book 2. Please let me know if there are any typos, or feedback. And thank you all for reading :)
Ace_the_owl
2025-02-13 06:17:29 +0000 UTC
