Jake’s plans were spoiled right from the beginning. His nemesis reared its head the moment Jake returned to Haven: politics. More accurately, Jake was being asked to do political stuff in the form of going to greet a whale that had made it to the edge of the ocean quite a bit away, right at the border of where C-grades could go. It was annoying, but it appeared only Jake could ”invite” C-grades into the safe areas, so he had to go himself.
Miranda, who had been waiting in his damn...
2022-12-05 11:46:23 +0000 UTC
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Jake knew the question of how long he had been in time dilation was just a stupid joke, but he still thought about it seriously. The last time he had spent fourteen years or something in time dilation, and that had translated to a few months. Would it be more? Jake considered and concluded It couldn’t be more than half a year, even if that would be a while.
However, he did notice one thing. His token had no new messages left behind on it. The last time he was in the time chamber, he h...
2022-12-02 11:32:04 +0000 UTC
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Jake reluctantly exited his Soulspace and addressed the projection first. He was inside a dungeon and wanted to avoid things turning awkward by suddenly getting teleported out or something. Opening his eyes, the projection that had been silent for a few seconds after noticing he was meditating spoke again.
“Honored Chosen, I want to congratulate you on your victory over the Lord Protector’s image. It was a marvelous display,” it praised in what Jake could only describe as an ass-l...
2022-12-01 11:59:43 +0000 UTC
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Jake instantly knew. He felt the awareness of sim-Jake slowly slip away as the bone katar began to show even more cracks. At the same time, Eternal Hunger hummed with power as if it was growing by the second, actively consuming something incredibly valuable – sim-Jake himself.
Despite knowing this had always been the plan, Jake still felt a sense of sadness. It was a weird sentiment, but he felt like he had become good friends with his other self. To have him disappear like this wasn...
2022-11-30 11:50:44 +0000 UTC
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The last time Jake had faced the hydra, it had ended in his defeat due to a timer. In this dungeon, there was no such timer and no interruptions to their battle. Jake could spend an as much time as he wanted, as long as his resources allowed it.
Jake had no idea how long it would take, but inside his Soulspace, he already felt sim-Jake begin his part. Charging forward, Jake prepared to meet the hydra in battle. It still showed the same lack of intelligence as their first fight, but its ...
2022-11-29 11:43:58 +0000 UTC
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Duskleaf appeared beside the Malefic Viper as he joined him in staring down at the young human within the time chamber.
“Did you ask me to come by simply to confuse me?” Duskleaf asked the Viper while looking down at Jake.
He had a break from assisting his Master as he could handle everything there himself for now. This had allowed Duskleaf to send his clone back to help the little elf girl catch up and make sure she stayed on top of her studies without any of his personal pro...
2022-11-28 11:45:18 +0000 UTC
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The Sword Saint sat in meditation as his inner vision materialized. He stood up and drew his sword as he began his sword meditation, his movements slow and ethereal. Each swing took several seconds, allowing even the smallest of children to avoid them, but each also held insight beyond what most could handle. The air itself parted for the blade, rather than impede it, as an odd shimmer appeared around his body.
Getting blessed by the Primordial of time benefitted Miyamoto in many ways. ...
2022-11-25 11:45:30 +0000 UTC
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Jake just sat and stared into the wall for a good few seconds, wondering what the actual fuck had just happened. It was as if the vision had been interrupted somehow or maybe forcefully ended. Or, maybe it was always meant to end in this fashion? Though that would also be incredibly odd.
The skill had allowed Jake to do something he thought was impossible. He had experienced a Transcendence, a skill that should be outside the system. Based on what Jake knew, a normal skill like his Path...
2022-11-24 11:46:06 +0000 UTC
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Alone again, Jake had time to think. As Villy had said, then the core of Sagacity was knowledge, also reflected by it granting Wisdom. Yet Jake had not really received any instinctual knowledge when he got the skill about anything related to alchemy. It did add knowledge through the drop of blood, but Jake didn’t count that as it was just another potential source. The knowledge of mana affinities did kind of count, but that was more just another way to identify things… which led to Jake...
2022-11-23 11:58:26 +0000 UTC
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Irinixis had wondered what had happened for a while after the Chosen had just one day disappeared. She had no way of contracting him as his token was unreachable, meaning he was either dead or not in the Order. She reckoned the latter for obvious reasons.
Her new teacher, the Velvet Mistress, also agreed that nothing would have happened to him. Chosen did not die that easily, and if he had been gone, people would have learned about it. The many statues of the Viper spread around the Ord...
2022-11-22 11:53:40 +0000 UTC
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Man, who would have ever thought that one could miss school? He even leaned into tropes by bringing a transfer student along…
A transfer student that was frozen in panic even as she and Jake appeared in the grassy area outside of his way too large mansion in the Order of the Malefic Viper. Jake’s hand was squeezed so hard he had no way of releasing it as poor Scarlett tried to process everything.
“I… is… is the worm the…?” Scarlett stammered out nervously.
“C...
2022-11-21 11:47:52 +0000 UTC
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They did not get along.
Well, more accurately, Sylphie seemed to not get along with Sandy in the slightest. She zoomed around the giant worm, making angry noises as her blades of wind tried to harm the giant worm while Sandy, in turn, just laughed.
“He he, the little bird tickles!”
Jake just shook his head and smiled. Sylphie probably could do some real damage if she wanted, but she at least had enough awareness to hold back. Then again, Sandy could also just le...
2022-11-18 11:49:46 +0000 UTC
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To call Scarlett absolutely ecstatic that Jake visited so fast again was an understatement. It only got more extreme when Jake asked her to help out with his experiment of allowing her to follow him to otherwise restricted areas.
”So, I will admit, I am not entirely certain how this works,” Jake said. He did not have a skill or anything to ”mark” people. Well, he did have one to mark people, but that was something else entirely. The World Leader ability was weird, and Jake tried...
2022-11-17 13:53:47 +0000 UTC
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He had hoped it would end… but no. The World Congress was a cruel mistress and allowed them to stay within the system event for the remainder of the allotted time. Jake wanted to leave, but a sharp look from Miranda made him know that he better stay. Alas, it was probably for the best, as seeing the newly-elected World Leader run away prematurely probably didn’t inspire confidence.
However, even if he was forced to stay physically, no one had told him to not go on a mental journey t...
2022-11-16 11:42:22 +0000 UTC
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After half an hour, the prompt appeared to vote for World Leader. Jake opened it and saw that it, too, was the same as every other time.
Please place your vote for World Leader of Earth. You have 10 votes and can distribute them as you desire or choose to abstain with any or all of your votes.
Votes remaining: 10/10
Time remaining: 4:29:59
Jake naturally dumped all votes on himself instantly while the others cont...
2022-11-15 10:50:24 +0000 UTC
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Jake and Carmen both lay on the grass in the valley outside of the lodge as they stared up at the sky, relaxing after their strenuous wrestling session.
“Why was it we couldn’t use the bed again?” Carmen turned to him and asked.
“That is a meditation bed,” Jake said stoically. “Also, it is super old and comes from a dungeon, and I didn’t wanna risk breaking it. Sentimental value and all that.”
“As long as you don’t feel the same about the table,” Carmen...
2022-11-14 11:30:03 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Just a little warning that chapters for book 4 will go down next Friday, the 18th (up to chapter 281).
<AUTHOR NOTE OVER>
Hawkie and Mystie had been busy birds as far as Jake knew. His visits to Haven had just never really intersected with when they visited, and after Sylphie left with him and Carmen, the two hawks bothered visiting even less as they didn’t really have any reason to go.
Instead, they focused...
2022-11-11 11:10:57 +0000 UTC
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Jake was still within the vision of the Viper repeatedly doing alchemy but no longer focused much on it. As odd as it was to say, then Jake didn’t really have much to learn from the current Viper within this Record Fragment. Jake was better than him already when it came to making potions, and he had already seen all he needed to see during the first few rewinds.
Checking his notifications, Jake saw the level-up.
*’DING!’ Profession: [Heretic-Chosen Alchemist of t...
2022-11-10 11:08:58 +0000 UTC
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The vision quickly materialized as Jake found himself in a large cave. Extremely dense mana dominated the area, with the source being a humanoid figure sitting in the center. It was naturally the Malefic Viper as he looked to be doing alchemy. The black cauldron in front of him was giving off a faint mist, and the would-be Primordial looked to be focusing deeply.
Yet after a dozen seconds, Jake noticed the mist change color, and he instantly knew: the creation was ruined.
”Pathe...
2022-11-09 11:05:18 +0000 UTC
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Scarlett had a hard time imagining it. The first time she met the Chosen had been so brief, and she had barely had any time to talk to him as he was busy just making his way through the Mangrove. She also didn’t fully realize who he was back then. With time she did come to understand and began to think about how she could make herself useful to the Forefather and his Chosen.
She was naturally elated when the Chosen trusted her enough to defend his comrades from danger and even more ha...
2022-11-08 10:25:50 +0000 UTC
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To call the settlement in the Grand Mangrove River a city wasn’t quite right. It was more of a small village, though it had been expanding in recent times, especially after the teleporter was installed. The reason for this was also quite obvious.
It was a prime hunting ground.
A settlement like this was rare as one could teleport directly into a place with D-grades all around you while still being safe. One had to remember that only a handful of people on Earth could fight C-gra...
2022-11-07 11:05:06 +0000 UTC
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Jake really had to restrain himself every time he visited Arnold. Mainly by suppressing his desire to see if he could break through the big dome of metal that guarded his workshop. It looked and felt damn sturdy, but he should have a good shot with enough destructive arcane mana. If not, then surely Touch of the Malefic could do it.
Alas, he was not there to break stuff.
He had already gone to see Arnold before he went on holiday, so he was a bit interested in why Arnold had asked...
2022-11-04 10:41:47 +0000 UTC
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Getting back to Haven was quite a bit easier than going to Skyggen. A month was not a long time, but it was enough for many changes to happen. Earth’s space mages had been working tirelessly, and the teleportation network expanded by the day. All the factions that remained were busy claiming what they could, especially after the Holy Church decided to effectively abandon the planet, resulting in the second biggest faction suddenly being gone.
The United Cities Alliance had clearly kno...
2022-11-03 10:35:10 +0000 UTC
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Arthur wondered where it had all gone so wrong, but the answer was obvious, wasn’t it?
It had been the moment he had agreed to the offer of that other Chosen, a choice he still questioned to this day. Why had he believed his lies and the blatant deceit? Missed all the red flags? Well, he knew why… because he had wanted to trust him.
Like every other human on Earth, Arthur had entered a Tutorial, a quite difficult one as far as he could gather. Survival had been the goal, and a...
2022-11-02 10:39:53 +0000 UTC
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Jake was rarely nervous, but on that day, he really was. Logic be damned; he was still a bit afraid his parents wouldn’t be okay with him coming, even if Caleb had only ever said they wanted him to. He had to admit that this was one of the reasons he kept trying to avoid going… Jake was very different from before, and with every day, he truly grew further from Jake, a boring salaryman in finance, and into Jake, the hunter. Despite how much he had been assured by Caleb, the nervousness sti...
2022-11-01 10:25:25 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
We are back from break!
Felt good to rest, my wrists are doing a lot better, and of course, a European team won The International, so things are looking up.
And, as always, enjoy the chapter.
<AUTHOR NOTE OVER>
The journey to Skyggen was one Jake had made before, but this time was far faster in every way. Jake’s One Step had upgraded, allowing him to go further than ever before, and he was fast approac...
2022-10-31 10:41:04 +0000 UTC
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Arthur… why Arthur? Jake had seen Arthur once in his life, and he didn’t like him. In fact, Jake kind of hated the guy. Why wouldn’t he? All interactions Jake had ever had with him were negative, even the second-hand ones. Moreover, he had been the one who decided that bringing Ell’Hakan to Earth was a good idea, messing things up even further. It was also clear he hated Jake’s guts.
Additionally, Jake did not get why Miranda wanted to work with him due to one minor detail.
2022-09-29 10:28:17 +0000 UTC
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Jake becoming the World Leader? Where the hell did that come from? Yeah, definitely not something many people would have predicted, but that was the best cause of action that not only Jake but also the Sword Saint and Miranda landed on. Even the King had agreed it would be the best choice, and it was no decision that had been made half-heartedly.
The problem was that Earth had turned out to be rather special, whether they liked it or not. It was the planet that had likely spawned the mo...
2022-09-28 10:39:11 +0000 UTC
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Jake stared at the fight with quite a bit of confusion. Sim-Jake crashed into the chimera and purposefully let himself be flung away. He charged again, but this time attacked while he used some odd version of Shadow Vault. His form seemed almost like it distorted for a moment as he was launched backward.
His other self noticed Jake when he entered and stopped fighting. That is when the second weird thing happened. When he stopped attacking, the chimera also seemed calmer, and even if it...
2022-09-27 10:31:15 +0000 UTC
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Jake and the King didn’t really encounter anything of note as they both flew skyward at a relaxed speed. Both were in weakened states, and while Jake was quickly recovering, the King was not. Hence why they took a relaxed approach.
On the way up, Jake infused some energy into the rock that was totally not an egg that he had received from Sandy. It had only been a few hours since they parted, and Jake would lie if it wasn’t a bit weird that he was already back again, but it wasn’t ...
2022-09-26 10:21:15 +0000 UTC
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