”Isn’t it entirely expected a few of his Creations will be entirely hidden even from you? You know how the system is with Bloodlines,” Nature’s Attendant spoke up within the divine watch party living room. ”If I am correct, little Dina must also have submitted some items that were restricted when she did the House of the Architect.”
”She did,” the Wyrmgod confirmed. ”However, it is rare that Nevermore herself shows interest in a Creation. Much less several Creations wi...
2024-01-04 11:57:24 +0000 UTC
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If anyone else had seen what the person sitting on the ground with his arcane marble had just done, they likely wouldn’t believe its legitimacy. Certain rules and norms existed that everyone assumed to be true, so it was natural that when someone didn’t play by these rules and decided to make up their own laws for how things worked, no one would take them seriously.
However, Jake had never been one to just believe it when someone said something couldn’t be done. Especially not whe...
2024-01-03 12:00:35 +0000 UTC
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The submissions of Jake’s two latest Creations went as smoothly as always, with no real surprises. The Architect was good at forcing him to leave once the job was done, not giving him any way to glean more details than she allowed.
Jake was fully aware both the transmuted Spirit Orb and the ritual itself weren’t that good Creations, at least not by the standards of Jake being a Chosen. Sure, they were okay Creations and many would be proud of them, but nothing to write home about. I...
2024-01-02 11:58:26 +0000 UTC
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Jake had done the impossible. Accomplished something that surely deserved a 25% bonus to Nevermore Points simply due to this momentous achievement. As for what kind of miracle Jake had pulled off?
He had managed to actually stick to a plan.
Three Creations had been planned, and Jake had worked on them without any distractions or random things stealing away his attention. He didn’t even go fuck around in any of the worlds but just hunkered down and did his alchemy, with any exped...
2023-12-29 11:54:29 +0000 UTC
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The silence within the throne room was absolutely deafening. The king, queen, general, and ministers stared at the now broken roof, all unable to utter a single word. Finally, the silence was broken as one of the ministers fell to his knees and muttered: “No, it cannot be… it was meant to be a legend…. how?”
This was the very same minister who only days before, claimed that the rumors going around were simply just that: rumors. But who could blame him? Who could possibly believe...
2023-12-28 11:36:39 +0000 UTC
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Multi-tasking wasn’t something Jake would consider himself good at, but what he was pretty decent at was switching his hyperfocus between different subjects one at a time. This did result in Jake often forgetting a few of his current projects, but in the House of the Architect, Jake found a cheat:
Attendants.
They were like super-assistants who didn’t actually wanna assist with anything unless explicitly asked and couldn’t do anything that required any skill. However, what t...
2023-12-27 11:50:28 +0000 UTC
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To be stealthy.
An ancient art learned by many teenagers with wary parents and creaky floorboards to remain undetected as they were up to no good. That, or because they just needed to go to the bathroom really late in the night and didn’t want to wake anyone up.
However, this was but one part of the stealth: the art of avoiding sound. Others were stealthy by melding into the environment through camouflage or even found ways to hide their heat signatures or other traces of their ...
2023-12-22 11:47:32 +0000 UTC
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Jake had wanted to just focus on making a Grimoire. He truly had. The problem was that he couldn’t just do as he usually did and experiment until he pumped something good out for one simple reason he had kind of forgotten, even if it was expressly mentioned in the skill description. It was only when Jake tried to craft one he brought up the skill description again and was reminded.
[Grimoire of the Heretic-Chosen (Unique)] – Expand your Path and allow others to walk in y...
2023-12-21 11:41:17 +0000 UTC
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”So, you’re not angry I had one of your employees act like a test dummy for several weeks? Imagine how many perfectly pristine statues he could have looked like he was cleaning during that time!” Jake joked as he stood in front of the Bound God after having presented his second Creation.
“Calling them my employees is not entirely accurate, now is it? They are merely summoned creatures, created to serve a simple function and give ambiance to the House of the Architect,” the Arc...
2023-12-20 11:37:37 +0000 UTC
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So, Jake actually ran into a bit of a problem with his experimentation. Testing out the effectiveness of his poison and curse shouldn’t be that hard, right? Except who was Jake supposed to test it out on? The defenseless prisoners down in the cellar of the House of the Architect? Random beasts or low-level monsters in one of the worlds? No, all the options were shit, and not just because it would leave a bad taste in Jake’s mouth, but because he wanted to give Eternal Hunger something tas...
2023-12-19 11:44:29 +0000 UTC
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”You gotta dodge,” Jake said telepathically as Temlat was attacked by the centaur-like creature. ”Stop trying to block everything or trade blows. That only ever works against those weaker than yourself.”
Jake floated above the clouds nearly a hundred kilometers up in the air as he observed this battle as he tried to stop himself from face-palming.
Below, Temlat held his usual dagger coated with curse energy as he yelled while attacking. His style was hype...
2023-12-18 11:45:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello there, ladies and gentlemen, the genderless, and eldritch beings who are yet undecided.
Coming in today with a bit of an announcement. My Webtoon has officially been released on Webtoon.com!
Link: https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-prima...
2023-12-18 11:43:10 +0000 UTC
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Curse energy was a great tool for combat. However, when it came to using it to craft while doing alchemy, things were very different.
The energy was actually pretty damn hard to store outside of your body, something Jake already knew and now had to find a way to work around. Jake had a talk with Casper back during Minaga’s City Floor, where the Risen shared that he primarily used wooden stakes due to innate concepts within the element. Wood was great at storing energy of different kin...
2023-12-15 11:43:59 +0000 UTC
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So, Jake was used to quite a few reactions when he revealed he was the Chosen of the Malefic Viper. Most reacted with fear, confusion, and then some level of reverence and respect. The majority of the time, it was not toward Jake but toward what he represented.
However, when it came to poor Temlat, he never got further than the fear stage. He froze entirely as his face went white, and he stared at Jake with wide-open eyes. His mouth opened and closed a few times as if he tried to say so...
2023-12-14 11:28:51 +0000 UTC
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Jake had been to enough medieval worlds already, so he found the second mission quite boring. The letter delivery did allow him to explore quite a few places, but nothing really caught his eye. Level-wise, there was a good spread, ranging all the way from F-grade to around level 240 in C-grade.
Race-wise, the diversity was even better, as Jake saw pretty much everything one could imagine. All the way from goblins to high elves lived in the medieval world, with many races having their ow...
2023-12-13 11:34:33 +0000 UTC
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Jake felt pretty good about having one submission down, with only nine more to go. His written plans were already entirely off just from him deciding to submit a damn conversation as a Creation, but Jake didn’t regret it at all. In fact, he believed it was a great move.
He wasn’t blind to his own uniqueness, and he got the feeling being unique counted even more than the attendant let on, but this wasn’t the only reason he submitted the encounter. While Jake had gone over the thing...
2023-12-12 11:20:57 +0000 UTC
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Throughout Nevermore, Jake had encountered quite a few gods. He had been recorded both visually and in far other ways by the dungeon and system as he made his way through the floors and Challenge Dungeons. However, despite this, he still felt like much about him still wasn’t shared. As if the system put up certain barriers of information not even the Wyrmgod could see.
Others had suspicions and theories, but they didn’t know. Minaga’s lack of fully knowing how Jake overcame his la...
2023-12-11 11:39:58 +0000 UTC
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Jake closely read the system message regarding the Challenge Dungeon, and outside of the thought that he really hoped he could level up in there, he had a few more opinions. However, overall, it wasn’t that bad.
Firstly, it was actually pretty straightforward, if still incredibly broad. Sure, there was some confusion about how exactly these evaluations would work, but compared to that horrible hellhole of confusion known as the Test of Character Challenge Dungeon, you had something tr...
2023-12-08 11:35:14 +0000 UTC
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“While we cannot tell you what to do, sister, we can at the very least advise you… and I cannot help but question your decision,” the Dragonfly True Royal said as she looked at Vesperia. “You still have time to reconsider.”
Vesperia looked at her sister and sighed. “I feel like this would be best for me.”
Odonestra also sighed as she shook her head. “It is a risk you do not need to take. The Endless Empire can provide you all the protection you need. Our resources ...
2023-12-07 11:53:59 +0000 UTC
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A hooded young man walked through the busy streets, sticking with all the civilians who made sure to stay out of the way of the patrolling soldiers who occupied the middle of the road. They all invited respect, yet fear from everyone. It was not necessarily due to their own power but what they represented. Who they represented.
The orange skin of these people made them easily discernable from humans, even if there were many similarities. Many had tattoos that marked their caste and orig...
2023-12-06 12:02:20 +0000 UTC
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Arnold stared at the wall for a good while before he returned his attention to his tablet. Taking out a pen, he began to write on it as he slowly nodded, taking down notes and trying to solve the puzzle in front of him. Hours passed as he never moved, and after nearly half a day, he finally reached a satisfactory solution.
Raising the tablet, he pointed its camera toward the wall, and the magical scripts were recorded and translated according to the algorithm he had written. There were ...
2023-12-05 11:41:07 +0000 UTC
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“Oh, I recognize this one,” Casper said with a smile as he quickly deciphered the Magiscript on the wall and found the solution as he wrote it down in mid-air before absorbing what was effectively magic code. “A very novel application of the bound-zone script.”
“Glad that at least some people appreciate real art,” Minaga answered. “Speaking of art. Thoughts on the traps so far? Always open to feedback.”
Casper, knowing where to go ...
2023-12-04 11:56:07 +0000 UTC
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Jake returned to consciousness, standing within the checkpoint hallway before Labyrinth Section 151. He felt like he had only blacked out for a moment, but the phantom pain of having his head chopped cleanly into four pieces could still be felt.
He had known from the beginning it wouldn’t be a fight he could win, and true to his prediction, it wasn’t. The B-grade was far more powerful than Jake in every way, making it utterly impossible for him to keep up and land any meaningful blo...
2023-12-01 11:51:27 +0000 UTC
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Jake narrowly ducked under the flying glaive before jumping right as the floor collapsed under him. Kicking off the wall, Jake managed to launch himself away from the pit that had opened up beneath him right as a piston-like block of labyrinth shot down, nearly pushing Jake into the hole.
Landing on solid ground, Jake quickly knelt down and braced himself as he crossed his arms and summoned a stable barrier of arcane energy to defend himself. A barrage of small mana spikes hit him right...
2023-11-30 11:45:50 +0000 UTC
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The further into the Challenge Dungeon Jake got, the more twists and turns Minaga began to throw at him. Quite literally, at times, as some of the sections outright twisted and turned, the labyrinth itself subtly changing as he moved through it. Walls would pop up, and others would disappear, shuffling themselves about in a set pattern that Jake could quickly figure out when he could take snapshots of everything with his Pulse.
Then there were the sections Jake dubbed the Labyrinth Arch...
2023-11-29 11:54:10 +0000 UTC
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Jake considered what Challenge Dungeon he would do for all of five minutes until he decided to just go with the one he felt the most confident about. It was also the one he thought would be the most fun and familiar.
Ultimately, he had to do all of them, and as he still felt a bit groggy after having his character tested, he wanted to do one he believed would be interesting. Maybe it would not be super challenging, but he firmly believed there would be some level of challenge, especiall...
2023-11-28 11:55:37 +0000 UTC
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Jake was teleported out of the godly meeting and appeared in front of the Challenge Dungeons like nothing had happened. He couldn’t help but smile a bit to himself after what had just transpired, finding the entire ordeal quite amusing. It was also really nice to see Artemis again.
He couldn’t lie… there was something about her divine aura that was just fundamentally appealing. Jake hadn’t been able to hold himself back from teasing her a little, and based on her responses, he h...
2023-11-27 12:01:17 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes, you just knew you fucked up, and in that moment, Jake knew he had fucked up. Trying to get some petty levels of revenge on Eversmile by getting one over him had already been pushing it, and now Jake had effectively just rebuffed three presences of Primordials, as well as those of dozens of other gods, entirely on accident.
Instantly, Nature’s Attendant read the mood of the room and dispelled his soundproofing barrier, giving Jake the chance to apologize as he scratched the ...
2023-11-22 11:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Jake had lots of stuff to address for sure and started with the most urgent one. With so many eyes on him, he couldn’t delay answering Valdemar’s bold proposal as he took a deep breath and jumped right into it.
“I am not sure this is the time or place or place for such an important discussion,” Jake said, trying to sound neutral to the question.
“But it is a discussion,” Valdemar grinned as he patted Jake on the shoulder. “You heard that, Vilas? Do you think this the...
2023-11-21 12:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Artemis could admit she had been too hasty in her actions when she decided to head toward Nevermore immediately. She at least had the clarity of mind to go and ask Nature’s Attendant to come along, knowing he had his C-grade granddaughter currently participating in the C-grade portion of the World Wonder. What she hadn’t known before asking was that the Chosen of the Malefic Viper and his granddaughter were in a party together, making the second-in-command to Yggdrasil very interested in ...
2023-11-20 11:33:19 +0000 UTC
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