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CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twenty-Four

With each tower that they put into place, Joe realized that the energy in the area was truly being impacted at an astounding rate. As the decuple of structures completed their creation, Joe felt a sharp static tingle along his skin; almost as though he were standing in a place where lightning was about to strike.

“Excellent!” Socar called out with barely-contained excitement as he watched the tip of the tower briefly glow with energy. “I see that the Formation is in place. Unfortu...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twenty-Three

“There's only a couple of hours until the next Beast wave commences.” Socar alerted the group with a hint of trepidation in his voice. “Are you certain that we can't wait until afterward to begin production of our defenses?”

“You’re the one that said you had something for us.” Heartpiercer scoffed lightly at the fear the Mage was expressing. She wouldn't admit it, but as the cat rubbed its face against his, obviously an attempt to calm its human down, she was slightly jeal...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twenty-Two

After tearing a hole in the ground on either side of himself, merely long, vertical shafts created by his Field Array, Joe activated his ritual and set the cavities as the target for his ritual’s output. Making sure everything was well-stabilized, he activated the new ritual and eyed it carefully as it slowly spun into effect. “Hmm… snail’s pace at ramping up. I'll need to find a way to streamline that portion.”

Notepad out and fiercely scribbling, Joe continued to observe the...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twenty-One

One of the perks of owning the smithy was that he was able to skip the line. Even so, standing over the cold forge and doing math was causing the Dwarf that he'd budged in front of to ever-so slowly-turn dark crimson as he tried to contain his vitriol. Which made Joe move extra slowly on his calculations. Absolutely because he was… nervous. Yes.

“If I want one hundred rituals under the Student rank, that means I'm going to need a thousand cubes.” Joe paused in his calculations as ...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twenty

*Wham!*

“Wahh!” Joe was startled from his focus, tossing himself back from the table and throwing his fists in the air as the horrendously loud sound came again. “What is that? Was there an attack? Or… someone’s just knocking, aren't they?”

Hoping that they hadn't been trying to get his attention for too long, the Ritualist rushed over to the door and threw it open, revealing the smug face of Bauen and the slightly exasperated faces of the humans that...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Nineteen

After discussing with the others for a few hours, Joe realized that each of them had extremely deep insights into their own professions. Even the Dwarf among them seemed amazed, as he had only been able to achieve his level of success thanks to hundreds of years of practice. As they were preparing to disperse, Joe hesitated and asked for one last favor. “Could any of you look at this ritual and offer advice on how you’d set out the parameters?”

He set out the full diagram of the R...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Eighteen

“If you’ve come to complain about the new laws-”

Joe brushed past the smirking Dwarven receptionist trying to block him from getting further into the building. However, the Ritualist was intimately familiar with this place, having been the person to build it. Simply Omnivaulting off the walls twice at odd angles was enough to put him past the fleshy blockade, allowing him to gracefully stride into the main meeting hall.

He was met by a group of wary-eyed Dwarven Masters, and...

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CC 9: Tenacity ~ Seventeen

“It's a pleasure doing business with you.” Joe shook the hand of the mustachioed Dwarf who was interested in creating a scented soap company based off the tallow she would render from the Penguins, as well as somehow being able to produce crystallized lye from burning hair from the Hoardlings. Apparently her business partner would use the excess tallow for candles or food preservation, so realistically it was going to be a two-for-one special.

While that was great, Joe’s focus was...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Sixteen

“I figured out light for them for free, but what should I do for water?” Joe didn't want to actually set everything up for the community without some form of clearly stated and agreed upon payment, but he figured he could get started on the work before they finally broke down and absolutely needed it. Then he could have an answer instantly, and Joe didn't mind looking extremely competent.

Using a variety of spells, he could always maintain homeostasis for himself. As an exa...

Joe's current nemesis

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CC 9: Tenacity ~ Fifteen

The elite broke through the wall on its seventh strike, giving it direct access to the next corridor of space leading to the town. The entire time, Joe was peppering it with various attacks, seasoning his strikes with the occasional Dark Lightning Strike. To his dismay, as soon as it made it through the wall, the Penguin was once more enthralled, and began scooting along the open space at high speed. “Abyss, most of the defenders are at the entrance. This is going to have another straight s...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Fourteen

As soon as his role in attaching the Mythic core to the building had been completed, Joe was unceremoniously cast outside of the pyramid. Utterly bemused, he had to watch as Jake ran to the central cauldron while squealing in glee until the door finally firmly closed. It wasn't a sight he'd ever expected to see from his stoic, menacing mentor, but he could understand the sentiment. Frankly, he perfectly understood Jake's attitude at the moment. If he had access to a Grand Ritual Hall...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Thirteen

Having set up a proper day and night schedule for the Hamlet, Joe decided that it was time to go and figure out how he was going to be getting paid for his services. Between the temporary housing and the floating light barrier, he'd invested not only a significant sum of aspects, but had needed to break into one of his last few remaining, usable cores.

He understood that without having ‘Reputation’ backed by a higher group, such as the Oligarchs, it wasn't going to be useful to try ...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Twelve

Despite being classified as a Journeyman rank, internally Joe nearly regarded the ritual as a Master rank due to its overwhelming complexity. Not wanting to damage the original containing document, Joe held up a piece of paper that he'd been transcribing the beast of a diagram onto, gently slapping it with the back of his right hand. “This is ridiculous! I can't even activate it manually, I have to meet each of the activation requirements? Mate, pop your head out so I can ...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Eleven

Joe walked out of the door unassisted, a pleasant surprise as Jake had threatened to bodily hurl him out of the door if he didn't leave to ‘ponder his few advantages and many disadvantages’. That was fine with the Ritualist, as he'd been unable to create a single alchemical compound of any rarity. Well, technically he had been able to generate lots of Trash rank items, but he knew that he shouldn't count that.

Jake would know, somehow.

Even so, going through the motio...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Ten

“Knowledge, Ritual Lore.” Joe used his ability to increase his skill rank for the third time since coming to Jotunheim, having either been too busy or asleep, and missed out on a few opportunities to activate it in perfect sequence. In order, he'd increased his Alchemical lore, Architectural lore, and Ritual lore, to Student rank one, two, and three respectively.

Joe's chosen purpose in life was to gain immense magical potency and knowledge. It was very difficult to have one without...

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CC 9: Tenacity ~ Nine

“There you are! I've been looking around for you everywhere, do you have any idea how out of alignment all of the spines of these Penguins are?” Jaxon cheerfully called out to Joe as he shattered the back of the enormous monster he was riding on. “Ooh! Crunchy one, aren't you?”

Joe watched as his friend somersaulted off of the creature’s back as it fell forward, landing heavily on the ground only to be slain with a single strike from an oversized ax. The Ritualist had...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Eight

The Ritualist started outlining his explanation to the people in the area that could actually get things done. “If this is what I think it is, a tower defense, having perfect walls is actually going to be a detriment. If there isn't a space where the enemy can come walking through, they’ll attack and destroy the walls instead.”

“I certainly hope you don't expect us to remain unprotected.” Snow spoke on behalf of the assembled Masters, who all nodded at her words.

Joe sho...

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CC 9: Tenacity ~ Seven

The Penguins didn't have much in the way of defensive options, nor offensive capabilities. Just as the system had informed them, these were essentially prey animals. They were the equivalent of rabbits or level one rats on another world. Even so, they had an extremely dense outer layer of blubber protecting them against the ravaging cold of Jotunheim which at least gave them excellent natural defenses against blunt attacks, while also slowing down any edged weapon that parted their flesh.

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Six

Joe sat in the smithy that he had created, waiting for some brave Dwarf to come over and ask to use it. Until then, he figured he could work on his plans for the area. “Something normal? Normal? If you want normal, you need to talk to some construction focused Dwarves. Hmph! Well… at least she was polite about it.”

He let out a quiet chuckle, and allowed his dramatic acting to seep away, leaving behind a stone-sober, focused Ritualist. Dozens of ideas were flashing throug...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Five

After leaving the smithy, cubes cheerfully jangling together until he dropped them into storage, Joe heard a commotion in the distance and decided to change his heading to see what was happening. As he arrived at the scene, he was confused by what he saw at first—all the way until he made the realization that the World Boss didn't simply disappear. It had been crushed, yes, but its remains had been scattered all across the area. The commotion he'd been hearing was opposing groups a...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Four

Besides having the blueprints, knowledge, and stability required for activating a ritual, the next most important thing was having all of the materials required. Joe hadn't volunteered anything when Grandmaster Snow had told everyone that Joe had used up all of his resources by getting them here, but the fact of the matter was: that wasn't even remotely true. In fact, as most of the work on the escape turtle had been done by Grandmaster Havoc as well as the engineers that he had employed, Joe...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Three

“How?” That was the question on everyone's lips, but especially Joe's as he sank to his knees. He didn't lift his hands from the ritual in front of him, constantly working to send enough mana to repair the building that had been almost completely destroyed by the World Boss. The Ritualist was shaking slightly, having known that he was about to die. Normally when he had that certainty, he was correct.

He knew that there was only one place that he could go to get answers. Pulling up h...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Two

“Hey! This is only supposed to bring across the building, what's with the lava?”

Joe's startled outburst at the incoherent scene caused a visible ripple of unease to spread across the faces of those participating in his magic. For a moment, the uncomfortable silence hung in the air, like an awkwardly failed bardic spell. Thankfully, in a fleeting moment of self-awareness, Joe realized that literally shouting his own ignorance for all to hear was a great way to erode people's trust i...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ One

Joe the Ritualist surveyed the new realm he was trapped in. Compared to the last time he had gone to a new world, this was practically a vacation. No choking to death because he couldn't force air into his lungs, he chose to come here instead of being exiled, and he was surrounded on all sides by friends. “Great, now we have all the positives out of the way.”

He chuckled to himself as he looked around, finding that the surrounding landscape was aglow with the flickering fla...

CC 9: Tenacity ~ Prologue!

~ Prologue ~

“I feel warmth.”

A mountain range began to shake, as seven enormous Frost Giants moved for the first time in centuries. Each of them had a single distinct characteristic, the only identifying feature among them.

The Jötunn, thrice as large as the mountainous giants that surrounded him, was the one who had uttered those words. He alone had remained motionless amidst the others who had been jolted by the sheer power of his voice. The titan was trap...

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