Jake appeared somewhere he had not expected to. A vast wasteland stretched out towards him, and he recognized it instantly.
The Divine Realm of the Malefic Viper?
Why had he been teleported here, of all places? Jake frowned as he considered if perhaps the situation was far more serious than he had first thought, and Villy wanted to protect him by sending him there. But that didn’t quite seem to fit? Because something had definitely been wrong during their dick-measuring...
2023-03-08 12:00:43 +0000 UTC
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The two overwhelming auras clashed in mid-air, reality itself vibrating from the metaphorical dick-measuring contest of two beings approaching the apex. Jake saw several people he suspected to be gods in the crowd frown and slowly back away, a few even teleporting away to avoid getting caught in a fight far beyond their level.
“Bold of you to dare come here,” the Viper spoke, his voice calm yet with rage seething right beneath.
“Bold… sure, we can ...
2023-03-07 11:53:02 +0000 UTC
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Back when Jake was in elementary school, the school thought it would be a great idea to make his entire class perform a play for their parents. Why this was a thing anyone ever thought forcing kids to do was acceptable, Jake didn’t know. He had tried all he could to just be a tree or some shit during the play, but no, he had been forced to have an actual role. He even had to speak four entire lines.
He had only fucked up two of them and hated every moment.
That entire play had i...
2023-03-06 11:57:40 +0000 UTC
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2023-03-03 10:53:46 +0000 UTC
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Vesperia looked at Caleb for less than a second before she simply smiled. ”No, but thank you for the offer.”
Jake gave Vesperia a massive mental thumbs-up as Caleb seemed a bit taken aback.
”Cute try, though, but while I do recognize Jake as my sire, that does not make his blood my family. I do not mean this in any offensive way; that is simply how things are,” Vesperia further clarified. She looked at the others and nodded.”It is a pleasure to meet all of you.”
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2023-03-02 11:08:04 +0000 UTC
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Meira felt intimidated as she sat in the living room next to the extremely tall winged woman. To make it worse, the woman occasionally looked at her with eyes making her appear far older than she actually was. Her entire demeanor reminded her a bit of one of the old matriarchs she once saw visit her home village. Thinking about the place that used to be her home, she felt a bit down but quickly steeled herself.
Be patient… Izil already said things are stable there.
Izil...
2023-03-01 11:58:15 +0000 UTC
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Jake sat in the chair as he tried really fucking hard to ignore the eyes drilling into the back of his neck from the fanatic sculptor. The man was relentless, and it took Jake several minutes to convince the guy that sitting in a chair with a Chosen in his presence was acceptable conduct. Could he have just let the guy continue kneeling or kowtowing throughout their entire meeting? Yes, he could have done that, but he reckoned that would be far more awkward.
After the ordeal with Felix,...
2023-02-28 12:01:09 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks wasn’t a long time in the grand scheme of things, and before Jake knew it, the fated day had arrived. He was honestly surprised at how little he had to do during this time, with no one really bothering him besides Miranda giving him the occasional reminder.
He wasn’t dragged out for a shopping trip for new clothes or even informed how things would proceed. Jake also actively tried not to ask as he instead tried to focus all his attention on just doing alchemy while not thi...
2023-02-27 07:29:06 +0000 UTC
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”No, slaves would not be a desired gift,” Jake said, confused at why Izil instantly jumped to ask about that. Unless…
”Wait, was the Altmar Empire planning on gifting me a bunch of slaves?”
Izil looked a bit uncomfortable at the question before she sighed.
”During these past few years, the Empire has already expanded into the ninety-third universe and blessed quite a few planetary leaders, with many of these planets not only having elves on them. Some have humans...
2023-02-24 12:08:04 +0000 UTC
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Mushrooms were evil existences created only to bring suffering to everything and everyone. No one liked them, and they only created misery and sadness for anyone unfortunate enough to interact with them too much.
This innate evil gave them only two valid functions: to be destroyed or be used to destroy others.
Jake refused to see them have any other purposes. Hence why he had decided their purpose would be the latter. He would extract their vital essence and use it to bring down o...
2023-02-23 11:58:08 +0000 UTC
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Jake went back to his mansion and decided to head outside and check up on Vesperia first thing. He walked out the door and saw a large magic circle placed on the lawn not far from where Vesperia had been born, the Hive Queen sitting in the center. A cocoon of energy surrounded her, and Jake felt she was in deep meditation. Looking at the circle, he was sure she would notice if he got closer, so he slowly backed into the mansion and closed the door after him, deciding not to disturb her.
2023-02-22 12:01:49 +0000 UTC
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Jake reached the bowyer after teleporting to the right district and quickly headed inside. Contrary to most other shops Jake visited, this one was far simpler and had a thoroughly tribal atmosphere. Pelts of powerful beasts lined the walls, and several bows used as showcases were protected behind barriers, proudly on display.
One of the four beastfolk that Jake had talked with last he and Irin visited stood in the reception area and noticed him as soon as he entered.
“Ah, there ...
2023-02-21 12:08:56 +0000 UTC
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Irinixis lay on the large bed and stared at the overly decorated ceiling of the ridiculously expensive hotel. The silky blanket barely covered her body, and she felt like she was almost in a trance. Every second she expected to wake up from some powerful illusion or cruel mental attack, but with every moment passing with nothing happening, the world was proven more and more real.
Turning her head, she saw the human lying beside her, hands behind his head, and his eyes closed as he looke...
2023-02-20 12:18:40 +0000 UTC
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Jake appeared in his mansion and didn’t hesitate to head to his lab to avoid conversations with both Vesperia and Meira. He felt drained from all the socialization and just wanted to unwind by himself.
Entering the lab, Jake took a seat on a chair and took out the item Villy had given him. The energy he had felt when he received it was similar, but it was only now he realized why. Because it was something he had seen before.
[Fragment of Akashic Awakening (Ancient)] ...
2023-02-17 12:02:27 +0000 UTC
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The entire room appeared frozen as Jake and Villy grinned at each other, Jake finding the prank from the Viper funny. He had, of course, seen him act like a servant, as Jake’s sphere didn’t care about the illusion the god had placed upon himself. From the Viper’s grin, Jake had acted just as predicted, resulting in a great prank.
At least Jake thought it was a good prank… the problem was, someone else clearly didn’t.
”Are you mocking a Primordial?” the Azure Dragonki...
2023-02-16 12:06:02 +0000 UTC
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Thinking about it, the prevalence of restaurants pretty much everywhere in the multiverse was kind of weird. It was understandable they existed in low-ranked areas with a lot of people in lower grades, but somewhere like the Order? Barely anyone had to eat. Yet they were still in every single district, and from the looks of it, damn popular too.
Jake asked Irin a bit about the benefits of consuming food, and besides the minor buffs to regeneration and the fact eating restored some resou...
2023-02-15 12:01:53 +0000 UTC
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Bringing Irin along for his shopping trip was definitely the best decision he could have made, as there was no fucking way he would have found all the good stores she knew about on such short notice. She gladly pointed out all the shit ones that overcharged customers, had untalented hacks working there, or those who had just recently had a change of ownership and were still untested.
Jake had never really considered it, but items could still be kinda shit even if they had a high rarity....
2023-02-14 12:03:13 +0000 UTC
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Jake was polite and asked both Meira and Vesperia if they wanted to join him on his shopping trip, and he quickly got two declines. Vesperia because she saw it as far too risky to walk around in public as a True Royal, and Meira because she claimed to be busy. The fact that she refused to even open her door and he saw her hiding under a blanket through his sphere made him doubt that explanation, but he let it go and just went by himself.
At least, he planned on doing that until he remem...
2023-02-13 12:07:16 +0000 UTC
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“Is he…?” the plump old alchemist asked as he looked at the screen.
”Yep,” Vilastromoz confirmed.
“This scene is a bit odd, isn’t it?” Duskleaf questioned.
“Not gonna question it,” the snake god shrugged, not seeing anything wrong with the admittedly weird-looking scene.
They were naturally watching Jake give Vesperia head pats, the prideful True Royal sitting perfectly still but, based on the antennas shaking slightly, clearly enjoying it. If any o...
2023-02-10 11:57:03 +0000 UTC
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Jake had been reluctant to reveal himself as Chosen for a long time, and with good reason too. However, the more time passed, the more he began to realize how meaningless hiding his identity truly was. One day it would get out, whether he liked it or not. Be it through something like this where he did something a god would notice, and that god then leaked it, or through one of the people already knowing making it public. Either on accident or purposefully.
As for who would leak it purpo...
2023-02-09 11:58:55 +0000 UTC
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Jake, by now, realized: he had fucked up. At least he felt like he had fucked up. But upon looking at Vesperia sitting beside him, calmly drinking her tea while Villy explained, he couldn’t say he regretted what he had done. Despite only meeting that day, he liked Vesperia. Who couldn’t like someone with a damn stinger gun?
”This is… kind of bad, isn’t it?” he finally asked, making Vesperia look at him confused.
”Why would it be bad that you managed to sire a True Ro...
2023-02-08 11:57:30 +0000 UTC
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Villy didn’t even give Jake and Vesperia a chance to respond as he teleported all three of them into the living room, where the tea set from before was still present. The god waved his hand and cleared it, only for it to be replaced with new tea – and cookies – right after.
”So, as always, Jake, you underestimate the impact of your actions while I purposefully don’t make you aware of them before after the fact because I think it will lead to a more entertaining outcome,” Vil...
2023-02-07 11:54:57 +0000 UTC
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The human and Hive Queen walked out of the mansion and onto the grass lawn outside. Vesperia spoke as they walked, explaining some more things.
”The Hive Queen form is designed to appeal to as many of the higher-tier races in the multiverse as possible in order to optimize our ability to find mates, and like other monsters, we do possess the polymorph skill to further alter ourselves. The lower the level of a Hive Queen variant, the less humanoid its default form tends to become, whic...
2023-02-06 11:56:25 +0000 UTC
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Vesperia stared at Meira, Meira stared at both Jake and Vesperia as she shifted between them, and Jake tried to look at neither, feeling awkward as fuck. He considered asking for Villy to beam him up and allow him to escape. Or, at the very least, for someone to please cut the building tension.
”If you were asking if Jake succeeded in the ritual outside, then yes. As the result of the aforementioned ritual, I am pleased to meet you, miss?” Vesperia asked gracefully as she stood up t...
2023-02-03 11:59:40 +0000 UTC
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Jake was taken aback at the Queen’s intense stare but even more so by how she addressed him.
”Sire?” Jake asked with confusion. No, wait, she had just been born, right? How did she even know how to talk? Why did she look like a fully mature woman? Why did she also give him the vibes of a fully grown adult with some innate sense of manners?
”Is that not what you are?” the Hive Queen asked as she moved her limbs, stretching as if asleep for a long time. ”Through your pow...
2023-02-02 12:01:33 +0000 UTC
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Vilastromoz appeared just as he saw Jake pass out. He crouched down and placed a finger on his Chosen’s forehead, making the hunter twitch slightly as an instinctual response, but otherwise, Jake did not move. The Viper scanned his body briefly before nodding.
He had thoroughly exhausted his own resource pools, and his soul seemed more feeble than usual. Health Points were dangerously low, stamina too, and even his mana was thoroughly drained. The core of his soul remained firm, but t...
2023-02-01 12:05:36 +0000 UTC
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“Not quite as I had hoped,” the old swordsman smiled to himself as he shook his head. It had been difficult, but in the end, he had done it. The spirit of competitiveness had truly fueled him as he became aware that Jake had gained a mythical skill from his Patron, Aeon. It had pushed his old bones further than he thought they could handle, and his desire had intertwined with his competitiveness and Transcendent insights, giving him what he wanted.
[Mythical Prodigy] –...
2023-01-31 12:03:36 +0000 UTC
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Jake’s theory – that barely even qualified as a theory – did have some major flaws. Primarily, he had no idea if this hypothetical transfer of Records would be the extremely negative and permanently damaging kind to the user.
It also wasn’t even certain he could do what he wanted. During the things with Sylphie and Sandy, Jake had, at least indirectly, infused a Unique natural treasure of the system that already included hefty Records aimed at allowing a monster to get a better ...
2023-01-30 11:58:01 +0000 UTC
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Jake’s second nap of the day was quite a bit longer than the first one. He ended up sleeping nearly ten hours straight, the longest in quite a while. And yes, he still categorized that as a nap.
Honestly, sleeping at higher grades was a weird thing. You didn’t need to sleep, and Jake had heard that some races just straight-up couldn’t, but those who started at lower grades where sleep was a necessity still retained this ability. As you then evolved, sleeping changed from being abo...
2023-01-27 10:22:10 +0000 UTC
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Jake kept staring at the corpse of the Hive King for several more seconds, still ready for anything to happen. It looked like it could begin moving at the very next second, even if he knew it wouldn’t. It took a few seconds for Jake to finally dismiss the katars as he fell backward onto his ass, breathing out a loud sigh of relief.
“Damn, you were tough,” Jake said out loud to the corpse of the Hive King. Even now, with the carapace broken in so many places, the termite still look...
2023-01-26 12:06:36 +0000 UTC
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