Dukean was initially full of questions and curiosities, but when Neave started talking about the loop, he grew silent. The next few hours were spent with Neave recapping everything that had happened to him since he touched the hell tome.
Once he finally caught up with what he was doing, Dukean pinched his forehead, fighting off a massive headache. Rather than pressure him to respond, Neave just sat there and waited.
Eventually, Dukean spoke.
“Why wouldn’t you want ...
2023-03-09 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Once Neave remembered the obsidian plants, he was convinced that would be the perfect solution and that terraforming the nightmare realm would continue smoothly.
It appeared it wasn’t going to be so simple after all.
The first thing he did was attempt to feed the plant or nurture it somehow. That seemed to be doing, as Neave would say, jack shit.
Perhaps it would be comparable to watering a cactus, except it didn’t even deign to react. Neave threw right about everything ...
2023-03-08 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Jokes aside, I want to connect to my community and have a talk with my readers! What did you like about Jester? What would you like to see in my future works?
I'll be sharing updates about everything I'm working on in the background!
I would love to get some feedback on certain ideas!
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2023-03-08 10:26:04 +0000 UTC
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Neave spent less than an hour maximizing his resources. Eventually, the sheer burden of the extra life force and nutrients started becoming detrimental.
Once he considered himself full enough, at which point he was beginning to feel severe pain, he stopped, grabbed a slime, and knocked himself out without hesitation.
The first thing he encountered once he found himself back in the starting area was Astrador, sitting on a rock and smiling gently at Neave.
“So, what have y...
2023-03-07 22:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave woke up back in reality and instantly knocked himself back out.
Once he was back in the nightmare realm, he took a moment to focus and spotted a faint influence in the air. He turned to face the opposite direction of the cave and ran there at full speed.
He kept part of his focus on the faint power floating in the air. Eventually, he couldn’t sense that power anymore but kept running to ensure it was gone.
After a while, he came across quite a few corrupt demons. He ...
2023-03-06 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Kaphor stared at the large stalk of grass in front of him.
“Something must be wrong with my head.”
A roughly three to four-meter radius around the grass stalk had been plucked clean of all other plant life. By Kaphor, that was.
It had been a while since he started this insane experiment, and he felt as if he was losing his mind. He had abandoned the grass stalk several times, quitting this crazy behavior and thinking about the future.
But every single time he did t...
2023-03-05 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave stood in front of Astrador, readying himself for the spar.
His body lit up as he triggered ignite and thunder nerves simultaneously. Neave prepared to rush at him and…
“Alright, stop.”
“What? Why should I already stop? I haven’t done anything yet!?”
“The deal was that I would point your mistakes out. You’ve already made enough for me to turn it into an entire lesson.”
Neave was flabbergasted. Astrador had to be pulling his leg. Neave click...
2023-03-04 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave held the slime in his hands.
Inside of the nightmare realm.
He cackled and laughed and got his little giggles out of the way. It was so funny to Neave.
Chaos was about to transpire in the nightmare realm. But there was one thing he had to check first. Neave put the slime on the ground, then he buried it. Slimes tended to get buried rather frequently and were utterly powerless to escape. Eventually, they could turn into earth slimes, but that wouldn’t be an i...
2023-03-03 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Neave found himself back in the sect, dragging a squirming Hunter over to the others.
He lifted him to his feet, pointed at him, and told Marven.
“Change of plans pops! He will take over the job of recruiting disciples!”
“Huh!?” Everyone yelled at once.
“... What?”
Marven looked distraught.
“Where did this come from?”
“Oh, I’m going to be extremely busy for a while, so he must do. Either way, that’s about it, so, bye-bye! I’m g...
2023-03-02 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave had no doubt.
This man wasn’t an illusion.
He felt his mental state revert to normal as everything anchored to this stranger's existence. His incredulity overflowed and returned to normality, as the absurdity of the appearance of a god was so immense he knew not even insanity could make this shit up.
Which left him incredibly confused.
Why was this man here?
How was he here?
Neave thoughts were interrupted as the man spoke up again.
...
2023-03-01 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave found himself back in the nightmare realm. He finally settled for a real name for the place, even if he found it a little over the top. But it was fitting.
Especially now.
Neave didn’t know how time passed in this realm when he was awake. Did it pass at all? Surely it did. Whenever he left and came back, it was clear that a certain amount of time had passed. He could conclude this just because there were many more/less of those corrupt demons.
When he took Hunter ins...
2023-02-28 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave and Harel found themselves standing in front of Gabrias and Marven. The first thing Neave did was laugh. It was noticeable from a mile away that Marven had been tutoring Gabrias on how to look like a sect master.
And Gabrias was getting very good at it.
So much so that Neave couldn’t help but laugh at the absurd show.
Gabrias stood in the middle of their sect’s main hall with his arms crossed behind his back. His rough face was stern and austere, while his height a...
2023-02-27 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave stumbled through the hallways of the sect, clutching his head and forcing the influence away.
With every step, he felt the influx of thoughts growing weaker. Perhaps it wasn’t growing weaker. Maybe he was just getting better at keeping at away.
As he turned a corner in one of the corridors, he stopped as he heard a voice.
“Neave?”
He turned around and spotted Harel standing a bit down the hallway. Neave hadn’t felt her coming as he had been too focused on...
2023-02-26 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Nostalgic.
Neave had the first thought for the last day. Exactly how he knew a day had passed was simple. This time, he did have a literal hourglass to check. And the last grain of sand had just rolled into the bottom chamber.
Ever since he left the loop, he hadn’t even once grown so dissociated. Until now.
Neave decided to let his mind clear for precisely a day. Under the influence of his enhanced cognitive abilities and spirit power working full throttle, the la...
2023-02-25 22:46:00 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Neave did after leaving Marven and the gang alone was run off to get a few things done. He took a quick detour to eliminate some snakes to gather a few of the nicer monster cores.
Many vendors were bidding for snake cores, mainly because of how unique the powers inside were. Neave planned on gathering enough to sell for a large dimension ring. Whenever he gained a new ring, he would put the old one inside the new one.
Naturally, it was impossible to have an infinit...
2023-02-24 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Neave hadn’t shared much information with Dukean. Not quite yet. While the spirit oath had confirmed that he wasn’t an enemy or a schemer, that didn’t mean Neave would just tell him every secret he knew right from the start.
Even though he desperately wanted to.
Neave enjoyed seeing the looks on others’ faces when he shared something unbelievable. He still felt giddy after Dukean felt his cultivation.
Although Dukean insisted that he must hurry and meet the others fr...
2023-02-23 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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The ethereal purple puppets all lay on the ground, shattered in whole or part and flickering. The dragon looked worn out, gashes spread through its entire body, and one of its wings was broken.
Carfen walked casually toward it, remaining vigilant for any desperate moves it may attempt.
But the dragon was out of tricks. It huffed and took sporadic steps back, screeching and growling at the armored man.
The battle was nearing its end, with Carfen not taking any real damage thr...
2023-02-22 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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This place sucked.
There wasn’t a single bit of precious metal or gem to be found anywhere in this forest. That was the only thing she could deduce after scouting a large area. Sure, the trees were pretty and much more rigid than the fragile twigs she had encountered so far, which was something she had learned the hard way by bumping into one and falling on her ass.
Besides that, there was little else of interest. The forest stretched endlessly in all directions and, as far as s...
2023-02-21 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave had something of a plan. When he wanted to rush at the diamond-path cultivator and the probably-diamond-rank dragon, he wasn’t just rushing out to get himself killed. In three-way fights, he would always have the option of pitting his two opponents against one another.
He would bet anything that he was faster and more maneuverable than the man wearing heavy armor. Although perhaps he was misguided in his thoughts, given that the armored man was on the diamond path.
Neverth...
2023-02-20 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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The rift appeared near the outer border, but the event's consequences spread like a wildfire.
Countless sects were jumping at the opportunity to be the heroes of the story and send their best to protect the citizens.
Granted, nobody wanted to go anywhere near the winged lizard that was presumed to be a diamond-rank threat. But there were plenty of people to evacuate and a whole load of silver-rank snakes to exterminate.
A small group of gold path cultivators was looking for ...
2023-02-19 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Dukean considered himself to have excellent intuition. After he heard the report by the group of men about the demon child, he quickly reached a conclusion.
The young man he had met in the library, or rather, Deeze, was probably the brother of the rumored demon child. It was a simple connection to make. Dukean assumed that Deeze was in the capital because he was looking for his brother.
Whether it was to drag him back, reconcile, or kill him, was a total mystery.
Once Dukean...
2023-02-18 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Monsters using weapons weren’t an uncommon sight. Many among the weaker humanoid monsters sharpened sticks or used rudimentary tools, even becoming capable of creating more proper weaponry later down the line.
The problem was that when a monster used what seemed like proper equipment, it was absolutely never good news.
The lizardmen that jumped out of the portal all wore crystalline purple armor. They wielded predominantly spears and halberds shaped out of the same material. Man...
2023-02-17 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Far out in the wilderness of the Yixine empire, a ridiculous sight was taking place. A large stretch of nature had countless priceless materials scattered about, roughly leading in a single direction.
It was like a very absurd path of breadcrumbs, designed to lure a greedy myth golem down a specific direction.
The diamond-rank cultivators sat with their arms crossed as they waited. The Emperor eventually appeared, and they eagerly waited for news.
“As far as it is readily ...
2023-02-16 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Neave had never paid much attention to the golden runes surrounding him during a true strike.
Well, it wasn’t that he didn’t try. It was more that he really couldn’t. The runes always felt just a little beyond his perception. No matter what he did, he simply couldn’t focus on them directly.
As the tendrils of life force extended and poured into the golden runes, he got sucked into the writing instead.
The entire world slowed down, frozen in an eternal moment. The tra...
2023-02-15 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Several miles away from the chaos enveloping the part of the capital surrounding the Falken sect, Gabrias was sprinting as far as he could. He had slipped away ages ago, and luckily nobody had stopped him.
As he rushed as far as he could from the portal, and the insane fight between Neave and the cultivator, he was accompanied by a massive horde of people, all pushing over one another and even trampling several others.
Gabrias felt horrible for those caught beneath the crowds, but...
2023-02-14 22:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Neave was handed a dimension ring that held not money but around a billion platinum coins in treasures, cores, materials, and equipment.
At a certain point, using money for trade became wildly unpractical. While it would be possible to use certain precious metals to make coins of value far higher than platinum coins, it was better to just use those metals to forge equipment.
Thus, the default for doing trade at the highest level was barter.
There was no debate about who won ...
2023-02-13 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Ilkivir was getting anxious. The devil's influence was just about everywhere through the capital. Either there was something besides Neave spreading it, or Neave was constantly moving around the capital without pause.
Ilkivir had decided to change his strategy and use a deductive approach instead. He had their group teleported to one of the outer edges of the capital. The demons sniffed around. Once they were done, they teleported again.
They repeated this several times.
Wit...
2023-02-12 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Occasionally, the best way to hide something was to do it in plain sight. Large sects weren’t strangers to flaunting their wealth and influence with parades, so the group marching down the streets didn’t raise even a single eyebrow.
Every once in a while, Ilkivir would signal them, and they would all collectively take a deep breath. No one demon could tell precisely where to go, which was why they would go in the direction most demons were pointing.
This scouting group had spe...
2023-02-11 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Marven maintained the same pace. Outwardly, there were no changes to his behavior.
Inwardly, he was cursing himself.
Large cities, such as the capital of the Empire, were horrifically hostile toward spirit senses. There was an overabundance of people, and objects that interfered with spirit senses were everywhere. Not only were cloaking artifacts popular among the masses, but no sect also wanted someone to be poking their spiritual nose into their premises.
Trying to maintai...
2023-02-10 22:45:01 +0000 UTC
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At every circle of Keyishin, there were dedicated areas for teleportation platforms. These were usually where the overwhelming majority of people arrived when they teleported to the capital.
However, for the peak sects, these portal zones were nothing but the commoner alternative.
Every major sect within the center of the capital had its dedicated teleportation platforms. A lot of sects had them outside of the capital as well, but that was a different story.
Teleportation pl...
2023-02-09 21:04:46 +0000 UTC
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