Chapter 1280 - Uncomfortable Truths & A Few More Beers

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Chloe

Lol villy is dressed up like doflamingo from one piece. Pink feathers and threatening sun glasses of doom and all

DrDankness

I am pretty sure the successful experiments generate a ton of records for Jake. He is also not losing records in the normal sense because they are reserved as part of jake juice which gets produced naturally as his records grow. The lesser version i think uses a tiny bit of jake juice but its like 1/10,000 of what the normal stuff would which makes it viable to experiment with while the main stuff you really only want to use on something you expect to succeed. By the time he reaches god he will likely understand how to use it a lot better due to the experiments when his record gains are easy at lower tiers.

Greg Alverson

I say give it to scarlett. Lets evolve her to a dragon just like villy.

Matthew Thompson

I know Jake always forgets things in his storage, but I feel like that Dragon heart would be amazing for Lillian in some way, especially if used in a ritual, maybe even with primordial energy at her evolution to B grade. It did come from a B grade dragon of the Lumen flight and she is a Lumen mage

Greg Alverson

tftc!

GeneticSloth

and we know shit's about to get real once the Primal Gatherer enters the System's multiverse 😌

Josie

In my view, Blessings (seem)seems more like a transaction to me.

Alexander C Hyde

New theory just dropped... When the first sage created the system in order to give mortals a better life and a path beyond, the titanic beings that ruled over the universe at that time sent the Primal Hunter to destroy the first sage and his creation. However, they had underestimated the abilities of the sage within his system. The hunter was captured and became the first student of the sage who he attempted to shape into one of the leaders bringing balance to the system. However, this Hunter, a being of darkness, time, and the conflicting powers of stability and destruction could not integrate into the system. He was outside it. Beyond it. Over time, this Hunter disappeared into his role of watching over the system and ensuring balance was maintained by its twelve rulers. The sage having become part of the system could not remember this being outside of the system, nor could he recognize the records left behind by that being's actions inside the system. Not even when those records coalesced into a legacy tied to a bloodline.

brjenness

Was there a bet with eversmile? Was it something connected to the lesson bait?

Patryk

Villy: "Not even Oras can see us now!" 👁 Jake: Why does this sound familiar.. oh I know.. (pulls out his void 🍭) Jake: "Well since my bestie's in a betting mood.. 😄" 🦩

Josie

I cannot get the image of Villy in a big pink feather boa with a grumpy face out of my head…

Colin

I like to think this is the outcome of that bet, and Duskleaf just spend a long time (from the perspective of us mortals) first choosing and then designing the costume.

Kristoffer

These are always the best bits love a chat with villy 😁

Sol

primal

brjenness

Whatever happened to the picture Jake never got of villy in a shirt of duskleafs choice after he lost the bet of how long Jake was in the time chamber room?

Catrina

Soooo.... what's the name of Jake faction once he and his allies agree to become one unity in the multiverse

Artyscon Drew

would be cool if jasper felt something related to jake in the universe and ends up meeting jake's family.

brjenness

while touring the campus, Adam gets a weird feeling about the annoying flamingo mascot that keeps showing up.

brjenness

Adam refuses to follow his father's footsteps into the boring family business rebels and joins an evil snake cult. Grandparents go with him on his campus tour, demand to see the manager. Poor Thaynes...one child becomes an assassin and the other is second in command of an evil snake cult.

brjenness

Orrr...Jake's family arrives and are met by some nerdy old guy that won't stop talking about alchemy except to question them about random abilities they may have.

brjenness

Miranda is showing Jake's family around the order?

brjenness

Odd twist to girlfriend saga...Jake runs into her at the Order. Or better yet, Draskil introduces her to Jake as one of his friends.

brjenness

🤘🏼😁🤘🏼 Tftc 🍻

JW Saxby

Jake should have told Lillian to tell people it was a weather balloon. Lol

C Smith

You know I think I have two theories here. The first being that Primal Hunter’s Spirit of Man skill is just an expression of his path as the removal of the need for stat based armor is just the further simplification of his path where all he needs to focus on is his advancement and nothing more, same thing with the other skills as it helps refine and focus his path. My second theory is that I think that his Sacred Meditate is the set up for his future Transcendent Skill. Through this process he is able to practically eliminate the effect of his bloodline enhanced perception and maybe this allows him to gain insights otherwise unavailable to him as his bloodline coat everything he perceives and does.

Azayrian105

It'd be fun if Jake used his new lesser Origin skill to basically steal his enemies weapons since they would soulbind to him. I don't think he actually would since it's not his style, but it'd be a hilarious way to win a fight 😄

Josie

Thank you for the chapter

joel southard

I’m so excited for tomorrow the chapter is gonna be lit

ChickeWin

Tftc Zog!

ZanSanCho

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Shadowind

Thanks for the chapter.

Joshua Little

It wasn't shroud but eternal shadow

Chelsa Roberts

Liar! Surely you have been waiting for this chat since he got the spirit of man skill, like the rest of us. :)

Kristoffer

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NicN

Hopefully Mondays chapter is from Villy's perspective and we get an insight as to who he lost the bet with.

Nick

Hopefully. We have a lot of loose ends like that

John Burton

Tftc.

DęthÅnjęl

Pink bird costume is probably from the bet he made with him b4 c grade evolution over how long he was in time dilation

Chelsa Roberts

I don't know how to make sure Zogarth sees this but I just saw someone complaining on Reddit from a couple days ago about the link to book six paperback version on Amazon not working. I think he was specifically talking about the German version.

Steven Ramey

Haha Jake is so out of the ordinary he seems outrageous even to Villy Just a record gaining machine It might be somewhat difficult for most people (especially gods) to fathom expending records like jake does- considering thats generally the largest limiter for actual progress Villy (and most other super high end gods) pretty much have to wait for the system to start a new Era to potentially gain substantial records Id imagine jake might get to that point one day, the cost might be inconsequential currently but if records have a soft cap per era of limited records he might have to really consider when to use Jake Juice when records are more difficult to come by. But who knows? Maybe jake origin-ing stuff would also reintroduce more records into the current era and allow him to sustain it on succeeding? Tons of possibilities, thanks for the thought process Zog!

Seen Death

Love his post evolution chats with Villy!

Anomander_Rake

Ahh the cliff hangers! Zogarth you are a professional edger, yano that?😂

mucky 12

Eh, even they still prob require the capture of the trusoul to do their shit. Which mc fot and released to the system.

Eden

The distance between Earth and the Moon increased with the integration, just as the sizes of Earth, Moon the Sun and everything wlse.

ChRiAn

I believe you have a outdated version of this skill, currently it seems that zogarth can create up to 6 cliffhangers per 5 days, with exponentially increasing cost of variant faith energy for each activation during a single week. EDIT: up to 6 cliffhangers every 7 days, to be exact. Forgot about the weekend.

Patryk

If it is I think zogarth should add some clarity to it.

ThatGuy

I'm assuming she literally gets profession levels when her plans get used. *ding*

Jimbo

Is this duskleafs idea for that bet wayyyy early on Jake made about guessing the exact time he spent in time dilation?

ThatGuy

Zog covered class and profession skill downgrades in chapter 1272.

Fyrtue

By the way, are we ever gonna get a look at what skills got downgraded when he evolved his class? For all we know, all of them could’ve been downgraded by a single rarity, or none of them could be, but it was never gone over.

Spicyice101

TFTC!!!!!!

Jose Reyna

Oh my god 😭😭love it, might have to draw an insanely stupid version of it later. Tyftc!!

tigerfishie

Hear me out. Listening back through book 13. Chapter 22-24. William gets hired by some 3rd party to simply “give Jake knowledge on Elhakans planet” this 3rd party is still yet to be discovered. They killed the go between for William. What if this same 3rd party wanted elhakan dead. As if someone is dead people stop looking for them. Did we not recently find out about a group that hides well there members appear dead? The void ambush? They use the dead as puppets Idk if I’m wrong or right. But I highly suspect the 3rd party that sent William to elhakans home planet. Is the same one that attacked Jake in the void, I have no proof. Only a game theory

Quinn

Cliffhanger of Zogarth (Sacred) Once a week, determine the most exasperating place to end a chapter. Effectiveness is multiplied by the number of days until the next scheduled chapter.

Stephen B.

"In Jake’s mind, the far more important thing was that he had successfully traveled all the way from the moon to Earth in less than half a minute. That was faster than the pre-system speed of light, though, considering how the Wings escape function worked, it wasn't like he had actually moved that fast." This is wrong it takes about 1.3 seconds for light to travel from the moon to the earth.

heine fjæreide

Now you're making me think of other great setups he's done. Recently we have his parting jab to Yrelstromoz before the dragon hunt but there's 2 all-timers for me. The first is a definite aura moment during his Chosen ceremony where he says they recognize his aura as an apex predator...no, the monster who hunts them. The second would be when Villy doubles down betting on Jake before he enters the coliseum for his last fight with Valdemar.

Fyrtue

Tftc. A lot of good laughs in this one. My favorite being Jake complaining about Miranda leaving notes on how to handle Jake problems

Dominick Gelardi

Lol I really hope the flamingo outfit was Duskleafs pick for that bet jake won. And that he got very nice photos

Indevan Jones

Minus the furry, please 😭 thank you lol

Josie

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Matthias

Literal shit i think is what jake thought

Carl Never

Aight. I need one of you artistic folks to draw villy in a flamingo furry outfit asap. Thank you!

Jip

Definitely the bird costume. What god got to do the photo shoot for winning the bet?

Carl Never

Man it would be hilarious if he lost that bet with eversmile and not duskleaf

Corvid

Ill feed you baby birds

Carl Never

Now for the most important question. Is the place super secure so Jake can talk in private, or so none of Villy’s followers can see him in the bird costume.

That one, right there.

Ty

Bobo

Understatement.

Clint

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Leigh Micheletti

No one has a knife to your back making you subscribe.

Xander

Love it. I've been waiting for this conversation for the last two weeks!

Meredyth Fifield

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Jared Bell

I think the idea is she hasnt had a blessing before so getting one can appear as a shift away from previous actions, which could include loyalty

Ron Whitlatch

Thanks for the chapter!

blucube 14

Really hope we get to see more about the united tribes in the future really like the concept of an alliance between both massive tribes with lots of gods and small tribes with few gods

Jack

WHAT the cliff... now I'm thirsty and its not even 10 am...

Alexandre8901

Villy has black/dark green scales for his complexion. I imagine black with pink would look good. But the dark green with pink…yea, super clash. 😄

ABTelford

I love that Jake tell Villy that he should drink some more - “you’re not ready for this my man. Booz up!” 😄

ABTelford

Probably something like it. But that skill seems like something he would have gotten as a reward for being the first human god

Dragon

Thanks for the chapter!

Arieh Sochaczevski

Jake’s Wings park!

KenTX325

Love it. Tyftc

Walter Kimberly

It’s going to happen. Especially when people figure out they get a power up from being in his faction. Hopefully he gets something out of it.

KenTX325

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michael geen

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Gregory Feddema

While it’s very in character for Jake not to want to be worshipped or followed, he is going to have a few annoying millennia as he gets closer and closer to godhood as the recognized pinnacle of the era.

DeAndrea H

Watch Villy be like "oh yeah, Valdemar has that skill but it's warrior instead of hunter"

Siethrobo

Really? You can't believe Jake forgot about something in his inventory?

Siethrobo

Though you are free to say if you want to help me through these recent proposals for-“ I believe it should be “stay” not say

Cole Christensen

Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!

JJB4345_80_815

I CANNOT believe jake talked to lilian and forgot he has LIGHT DRAGON LOOT that can be used by the LIGHT MAGE!!! JAAAAAAAAAAAKE

LionHeart

Hmm… in my imagination, pink feathers clash with Villy’s complexion, makes him look washed out. I hope we get an Intermission about Lillian and the United Tribe!

DeAndrea H

Praise be the Malefic Flamingo 🤌 Tyftc

Episode 19

Maybe turn the crater into a nice lake with a park. Put some eels in the lake and make a place for the hawks to hang out.

KenTX325

The Jake Villy cliffhangers hurt the worst

E

TFTC :) Have a great weekend all :) And i definitely didnt check the maths on the new distance to the moon compared to the pre-integration the speed of light :D Why would Lillian getting a blessing (tbh i assumed she'd had one for years at this point) be a conflict of loyalty? Any god that blesses her would have a closer tie to Jake and thus the viper and would want to nurture that right? Suggested edits: "had *Holstred* shut down a" wasn't it spelled "Halstred" before? I mostly listen to audiobooks so ignore me if I am mistaken. "certifications of *authentications* claiming" should be "authentication" since its the certificates that are plural or even "certificates of authenticity" "In my view, *Blessings seems* " either "a Blessing seems" or "Blessings seem"

Xander

Oh, good. It's Thursday, so I don't need to plot any stabbings this weekend... *checks the calendar* Oh. One minute, need to go get my stabby stabby knife.😆

Nyx

I assumed this was because of the increase in scale of everything post-system, i do think it’d be good to clarify if that’s the case though

Noah

We need photos! To give to the church so they can make statues! Actually better not. They would probably start a war with the beast tribes to get the feathers.

Michael Fannon

jake is closer to lightspeed then you are to jake- Brian Scalabrine

brjenness

Duskleaf had better had taken photos to share. And give those photos to the primordial church so they make giant statues.

Michael Fannon

more of a slippery slope

brjenness

“he had successfully traveled all the way from the moon to Earth in less than half a minute.” Just wanted to say it only takes light like 1.3 seconds to go from the moon to earth so I didn’t know if you meant “minute” to be second there or what. Best

ByLordMatsLuck

Yeah Jake is being a bad boyfriend

ByLordMatsLuck

Keep in mind not only the earth but the moon have grew massively. In previous books it was also confirmed the moon is farther away than it used to be.

Tyler Brooks

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Meir Banon

Doesn't that ability have like a loading time to set it up ? Perhaps the travel itself once the ability warped was faster

Maxime

Devillelouch

So.. what do we think Villy's been quietly adding to Jake's beers this whole time? It would be boring if he hasn't added anything ever, and the Malefic Viper isn't really a boring snake lol

Josie

Haven "actual" is still preserved. It's just The Fort area that had modernized and expanded.

Samuel Nelson

did you know to make the moon fall you don't push it towards earth, you just need to slow it down?

brjenness

That last paragraph is one of the best set up paragraphs Zog has done. It’s the perfect kind of pull you forward not hang you out cliff set up. This is a great chapter. Thank you very much.

Cyranosaurus

1.28 seconds is how long it takes for light to travel from the moon to the earth. Pre integration

Mrburns93

I agree next week should be dedicated to your journey to B grade

Lynderyn

Moon Is not same distance from earth as before, though, otherwise theyd be superimposed due to how massive they both now are.

Gavin Wayne Pitcher

Cliff hanging on the reaction stuff, but this felt like a very complete chapter and wrap up to the week.

Fyrtue

But the System scaled everything Up, so the distance ist much larger

Felix Tomiak

Ree!

Sylphie

The suits gotta be from the bet villy lost to Jake about how much time he spent in time dilation when he was making internal shadow and duskleaf told Jake how much time he spent in there

Nano

I thought it was the time bet that Duskleaf won for Jake.

Kirin

Thank u for the story

C0bra$

Yo isn’t the moon like a lot further from earth now since you know earth grew to the size of the sun post integration? Shouldn’t the distance scale as well?

Tichamala

Finally, a first non-filler chapter in a while!

Sergej Fel

I want to know what bet he’s lost. One about Jake’s evolution, maybe ?

Lizy Flore

Ahhhhh Zogarth gotta tickle my balls like this. We need to wait till Monday 😭

Almer Reyhan

Thanks for the chapter! 🙂

Kt-x

Some fun calculations that are probably wrong. It takes roughly 1.3 seconds to get from the earth to the moon at the speed of light (said google). The earth is now about the size of the sun which is 1000 times bigger than earth which if scaled proportionally means that distances have increased 3root100 = 10 times which means it would take 13 seconds to get to earth from the moon. But these are bad (probably wrong) calculations based on a few lines in the novel. Also wings I think requires build up time.

eatingpitza314

Villy proceeded to shit his pants while laughing.

Morazain

Faster than the speed of light? But it took nearly 30 seconds? Traveling from the Earth to the Moon at the speed of light would take less than two seconds… A little research goes a long way. Love the books but the speeds and the distances described sometimes get out of hand and totally unrealistic.

Brian

I love that Miranda basically set up a version of Gotham City Batman insurance for Haven and Jake. Like, "We expect parts of the city to have random insane shit happen because, Jake." Also, real pink feathers on the Viper. I so badly want to see a picture/webtoon panel of that. tyftc!

Darshar Griffonmane

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Troy Cruz

Nice chapter, really good stuff! Random question though. How does Haven look like? Still Treehouses? Is there anywhere a picture available? I can not really imagine it

Mikesch

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Aritra Gupta

Just to have the information possibly available, the moon is one light second away (thanks beer can). Which is pretty big considering you could stack the rest of the planets in between comfortably.

MrRinger

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IntenseSushi

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Beemoss

Would be interested to see Lilian be part of an experiment about bettering classes, specially if the goddess is a prick. Granted with how much the main beast tribes are trying to buddy up with Jake i dont see much conflict happening

Tyler S.

It would be hilarious if villy shrugs him off saying valdemar got an even better one

Sleep

Thanks for the chapter

Connor

The Malefic viper wearing that outfit is definitely the bet from after he attained eternal shadow.

BumAssBumAss

That is a cliff. Not a giant one, but still.

Michael Fannon

Dang, didn't realize you were Jake until you started talking about being better than divine

Rick Delallata

Ooo we're speedrunning a bit here now, thx for the little fast forwards and slightly increased pace zog, this chapter really flew bye but still felt fluid to read. Also Miranda info drops are always appreciated, I always want to see more of her doing more order related or witch related stuff, I find the lagoon cool af to explore and the ritual aspect of her path also really cool. Would be nice if her and Jake did a joint ritual one day since they both share that aspect of their paths. Also villy in a flamingo suit was definitely something to imagine

Exodus Uno

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Fdrugc

"a random crater made by you is not worthy of being considered a holy... or, I guess, malefic site.” -> "a random crater made by you is worthy of being considered a holy... or, I guess, malefic site.”

BumAssBumAss

Damn you Tyler for your enviable speed

Dhia

Nice to catch up with Lillian again. Assuming the Lucenti beast goddess whoever she is doesn't screw this up it's a good opportunity to make a connection with one of Jake's people. We know the United Tribes are very interested in Jake so this could work out really well for Lillian, oops surprise divine blessing.

djthomp

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Ben Cox

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Staudi

"a random crater made by you is not worthy " remove "not". It IS worthy. tftc

Jason

Not like it would matter here, shit got moved around in the tutorial

Meadow

Monday will be great

Jennifer Leigh

Damn cliff hanger I wanted villy's reaction

Rick

Thanks for the chapter and happy Friday everyone.

Loststar7

Ttfc

Malo Thomas

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ShadeDweller9578

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Misa

TFTC! Also, yes I did Google how many light seconds away the moon is from Earth, why do you ask?

TheDwiin

TFTC!

Shai182

divine path: sacred => divine But ... chapter 1240: “Wait, what happens if you improve a mythical skill enough to get an upgrade without adding any divine elements?” non divine path rarity explorations, there should not be a lot of these because skill grades are relative: apex/pinnacle/supreme: we saw some of these for soulflames ? I like the apex for hunter, but doesn't really match Jake, see under beyond: to go even further beyond ! could be in relation to apex, like when Artemis and Jake talked about the balance of nature predator/prey, Jake is an outsider, this could be same feeling, a grade that acknowledge breaking of scale arcane/primal: customized grade similar to beyond, system agree you are op, so you get customized grade that has the same "name" ... arcane ... but you can give it custom name yourself, in this case primal transcendent/transcendental: could be a grade as in to transcend, no direct relationship to the bloodline/transcendence stuff, probably won't be to avoid this ambiguity heretical: Would make "sense", but I don't like it, positioning yourself as a heretic means acknowledging the divine, which is weird. Jake does his own stuff, even comparing would feel wrong. Like in the heretic curse from the insect queen, his bloodline just (would have, book 9 chapter 32) suppressed it. I suppose there should be a minimum of one of these and a maximum of two of these considering that there's already the "unique" scale which by definition is ... unique My brain says Pinnacle/supreme for after mythical but without divine My soul wants arcane/primal for after mythical, or even after (pinnacle/supreme or the correct name Zogarth will pick) because fuck the divine, i don't have to be immortal to be better than you

sinewyk

Goddamn Tyler was fast

Jacob Brady

First strike arrow

Tyler S.