It wasn’t good enough. It was never good enough. With disappointment in his own incompetence, the sculptor shattered his half-made creation. Only a bit of the material was lost as he could still use the marble-like rock by refusing it, but some material was gone forever. Fortunately, the City Lord understood the importance of his task and provided him the funds necessary to do what had to be done.
Felix had not left his workshop for… a long time. He wasn’t actually sure how much t...
2022-07-04 10:29:34 +0000 UTC
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Some lessons in the Order of the Malefic were limited to certain members. This was one such lesson, limited to individuals who had been in the Order for less than a year. The lessons were also held once a year, making it one you could only attend once. Jake heard that the Hall Master had missed some lessons in recent times due to being away training, but it didn’t have that huge of an impact who taught it. Rather than teaching much, it was an orientation of sorts, and Jake honestly only att...
2022-07-01 10:29:49 +0000 UTC
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Multitasking. Everyone loved multitasking, and it was one of those great buzzwords people often used when they attempted to do fifteen things at once poorly rather than just do a few well. Multitasking also wasn’t truly doing more things at once. It was just rapidly switching between several tasks or starting tasks that could automatically continue or finish on their own while then spending the meantime on something else. Like an author putting food in the oven that would take forty minutes...
2022-06-30 10:32:54 +0000 UTC
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The ground shattered as the two beings clashed. Mountains were torn asunder, and space shuddered with every impact as their bout seemed to go through a neverending cycle of change. The larger of the two figures repeatedly adapted and transformed in response to the attacks of its small attacker, while the small combatant seemed to always be able to counter whatever the monster did.
Jake stood back and observed this all as huge areas of the Soulspace were ripped apart. It was a fight clea...
2022-06-29 10:28:37 +0000 UTC
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Meira slept as her eyes rapidly darted around below her eyelids, having a nightmare. She felt like she had been thrown deep underwater and had constant suffocating pressure on her. At the same time, she felt like she heard the raised voices of others. She tried to escape and swim away in her dream, but she only kept getting pressed further and further down into the deep and overwhelming darkness.
Finally, the pressure lessened, and she began floating upwards towards the sunlight. Meira ...
2022-06-28 10:36:19 +0000 UTC
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Jake stood with his hand covering his face in a solid facepalm as he stared at the chaos that was his living room. Using his sphere, the very moment he teleported into the garden, he saw everything. The trip had been smooth, if a bit nauseating as usual, with no void stuff along the way, and he had entered with expectations of finally relaxing a bit, only to come home and see two honored gods acting like children.
In the doorway to the room lay an unconscious Meira, and on the sofa, Vil...
2022-06-27 10:32:38 +0000 UTC
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Jake narrated his brief trip to the Seat of the Exalted Prima and talked about the event. Villy asked several questions along the way, even some technical ones, about how the simulation worked and what Jake had learned while experiencing it. He was especially interested when Jake got to the conversation he had with the system together with sim-Jake. Of course, what he was most interested in was sim-Jake himself.
”So, it appears you entered what we call a Parallel World Simulation ...
2022-06-24 10:45:46 +0000 UTC
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Jake wanted to punch someone in the throat as he was still internally raging. More than anything, his lack of understanding frustrated him the most. He hadn’t felt anything was off until the very last moment when Ell’Hakan perhaps went a bit too far with his questioning.
He had been complacent… Jake knew others had to constantly watch out when it came to social skills and keep their minds steeled. Jake never did that, as he always felt when someone tried any mind magic shenanigans...
2022-06-23 10:35:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello there all. Zogarth is back with a post that is not a chapter, but there was also a chapter, so no complaining. I made this post to give you all a thanks. I began to publish The Primal Hunter only a bit more than one and a half years ago, and now I am living a very comfortable living off it and even have two highly successful books out on Amazon.
This post is to celebrate the launch of Book 2 a week ago on Amazon, as well as the fact that it happens to be my birthday today, so why ...
2022-06-22 11:51:15 +0000 UTC
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The Path of Myriad Choices was an event quite a bit different than any prior. It was not one that was decided by simply being strong or one that could be teamed up for a strategized to beat. All you had was who you were fundamentally and simulations showing you what your choices could have changed.
To some, no simulation shown made them more than what they were. One such person was Miranda. She saw five previews. One where she died because she led them in another direction than where Ha...
2022-06-22 10:13:33 +0000 UTC
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However… even if the two Jakes would someday become one again, that day was not today or any day in the near future. For now, they were quite different. One thing they did agree on was a bit of quick experimenting, though. The first item on the list was the bone in the real world. Jake had already confirmed that sim-Jake could see everything Jake could and shared all senses, but it appeared that sim-Jake couldn’t talk to him in the outside world, so all communication had to go through the...
2022-06-21 10:16:36 +0000 UTC
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There was potential. Jake nodded at the system’s answer as he asked to clarify: “What kind of limitations may apply? And what do we need to do to make it happen?”
The system entity answered as monotone as ever: “Limitations include absolute separation from the material realm and interacting with other entities, limiting the transferred simulacrum to the Truesoul. All expression must be made through an inanimate Soulbound object. Requirements to facilitate this process include a ...
2022-06-20 10:19:46 +0000 UTC
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”As we both know, the Bloodline offers abilities that are on a qualitative level at the peak of the multiverse. Merely doing by instinct, dodging anything and everything is simplicity itself, but that does leave one obvious flaw: attacking. Don’t get me wrong, the instinct to attack weak points is still there, but such a simple instinct may do more harm than good. When attacking, you are forcing a reaction, not being the one to react, meaning our predictive instincts are far less useful,...
2022-06-17 10:10:51 +0000 UTC
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From all the things Jake had seen so far, his simulacrum wasn’t that much better at fighting in melee than him. He was better for sure, but it was more from experience than pure fighting technique. One could say that to beat other humans, sim-Jake didn’t need to learn anything advanced. He just needed to attack with one quick blow and end their lives.
With the system, enemies did not go down as easily. Especially not foes above himself in level. Even a blow to the brain didn’t nec...
2022-06-16 10:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Jake watched on as his simulacrum made yet another miraculous escape by leaping out a window and rapelling down four stories before swiftly making it over the fence to the forest. The guards were a bit distracted by the gunshots from their boss earlier and had, of course, gone to investigate only to find the man dead.
Back in the forest, sim-Jake kept running as he spoke once more, a smile on his lips.
“I wasn’t even paid for this one, you know? I just didn’t like the guy. H...
2022-06-15 10:17:48 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Big hype day! Book 2 of the Primal Hunter is now out on Kindle Unlimited and Audible, once more narrated by Travis Baldree. Book two will include some extra stuff that was not on the RR release, such as two side stories that were actually originally intended to be part of the main story, but back then, the hatred for anything non-Jake made me turn them into Patre...
2022-06-14 10:04:48 +0000 UTC
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Jake looked on as the life of the other Jake progressed at a steady pace, far more detailed than before, and it even included sound now. In fact, it was as if Jake himself was present and standing in the room and could even move around.
Many of the first memories after simulation-Jake - or sim-Jake for short – went into the foster system were of him being thrown into new environments surrounded by other children in equally unfortunate situations.
Such children tended to not be t...
2022-06-13 09:59:27 +0000 UTC
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Jake had selected the only thing possible, and a new menu popped up, finally giving him a better idea of what the event was all about and how it would work.
System-tier event: Path of Myriad Choices.
Simulation Description: The participant will be shown a minimum of two and a maximum of six choices made prior that significantly impacted their current Path. This simulation allows the participant to see a potential reality wherein that choice was not made. D...
2022-06-10 10:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Jake found himself teleported onto an identical metal disc within a small hall. Sultan, Miranda, Arnold, and Sylphie appeared together with him shortly after, and just as they stepped off the teleporter, it activated again.
A familiar figure appeared, and Jake turned and gave the Unique Lifeform a look.
[Fallen King – lvl 196]
The level of the King was approaching peak D-grade. Unique Lifeforms were truly cheats… then again, the King only had his race to...
2022-06-09 10:14:29 +0000 UTC
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Bright light entered his eyes as he stepped through the portal. Jake instantly felt several powerful auras all around him, recognizing most of them. They came through their own portals that rapidly appeared and disappeared all around him within what he found to be a large spherical room.
Metal plates covered the walls and floor, with nothing of note visible anywhere besides the people. That is until Jake noticed that the room was split in two by a large, fully transparent plane of glass...
2022-06-08 10:11:19 +0000 UTC
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An annoying ringing sound reminiscent of his old alarm woke Jake up from his nap. With a start, he sat up only to groan in pain as his body still hurt like hell. He wondered what was going on as the alarm kept blaring in his head until he finally found the cause.
“Villy… are you cosplaying as an alarm clock?”
“I was going more for a phone alarm with the most annoying option selected, actually,” the god answered.
Jake was about to ask why the god was doing ...
2022-06-07 10:14:18 +0000 UTC
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Jake did not have time to consider anything but the battle in front of him, not even the notification he had gotten after he escaped the collapsing space tunnel. His body was marred with wounds, and the only injury on the Panther was a single cut left with Eternal Hunger. A cut that had benefitted from Stealth Attack as he had been hidden in the folds of space.
A swipe came from the right as Jake managed to block. A follow-up from the left forced him back as the beast rapidly pushed its...
2022-06-06 10:12:49 +0000 UTC
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Clones… Jake knew a bit about them. Making a clone was something many, if not most, would learn to do eventually. In most cases, making a clone was to more or less cut off part of yourself to act autonomously. It could also be to just create a copy that shared all senses and that you still had to somewhat control, but these were often classified as puppets instead.
This varied further from illusion or mirages, which were entirely fake and often only existed for brief periods, while ma...
2022-06-03 10:01:46 +0000 UTC
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Jake launched himself into the air to avoid the charge of the four clones, and just in time, as the space he had just occupied imploded from the impact of four paw-swipes infused with potent space magic.
He pushed his wings to fly faster as he felt the approaching beasts. Twisting his body, Jake turned and shot off blasts of arcane mana as he also landed a Mark of the Avaricious Hunter on all four of them. Not for the damage necessarily, but as much to keep track of them.
Four for...
2022-06-02 10:08:20 +0000 UTC
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Jake decided to find a nice tree and take a seat as he opened his notification window to go over the last few days of hunting. There were many kill notifications, all of them giving experience as naturally a stealth archer was always the one engaging, and why would Jake choose to engage lower-leveled foes?
As for levels… well, it was pretty good as his hunting speed kept picking up, and in his fervor to upgrade the skill through trial and error, he probably ended up hunting faster tha...
2022-06-01 10:14:06 +0000 UTC
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Willpower.
Out of all the stats, it was the one Jake understood the least. Intelligence made him a bit faster at calculating stuff and probably helped with other mental things while making magic more potent. Strength made him stronger. Wisdom made it easier to remember things and increased his mana pool.
All of them made sense and had some form of scaling in combat. Perception was also a difficult stat to understand at times. It increased all his senses, even if he suppressed most...
2022-05-31 10:13:47 +0000 UTC
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Jacob sat in his office and stared at the item lying on the table in front of him. He picked it up and felt its metallic surface. Their smiths had already tested the metal and found it completely unrecognizable. Even those who had Patrons said they were unable to identify the metal, meaning it either had to be new to the universe or made by the system specifically for this item.
[Key of the Exalted Prima (Unique)] – A key to the Seat of the Exalted Prima. Allows entry to t...
2022-05-30 10:17:31 +0000 UTC
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Finally, it was skill-selection time. It had been a good while since he had last selected a class skill. Shit, the last time he picked one was when he got Steady Focus of the Apex Hunter during the Treasure Hunt. It felt like ages ago. Since then, he had gone to the Order and mainly focused on alchemy, so his class had really been put on the backburner. Not that this time spent hadn’t also benefitted his class. Through his profession, he had gotten a lot stronger, especially when it came to...
2022-05-27 10:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Each step bent space as Jake ran through the landscape. It had already been a day or so since he left Paradise, with nothing especially interesting happening so far. A few mediocre D-grade areas had been explored, but nothing worth hunting.
He checked his map and saw he was approaching a new area marked as a danger zone. This particular area was exactly the kind of environment Jake loved to hunt in. It was a vast swath of greenery with tall trees dominating the horizon and dense foliage...
2022-05-26 10:22:59 +0000 UTC
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When fighting, Jake liked to be in control and dictate the momentum. He liked when he decided what would happen next, and the flow went as he predicted.
That night did not feel particularly in control, and if he was candid, he was totally fine with it.
Not that he didn’t also seize the momentum here and there as the battle continued, making it a big back and forth.
After their battle, Jake found himself lying on the bed as he relaxed, with Carmen leaning against the headbo...
2022-05-25 10:11:40 +0000 UTC
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