Alas, the time has come. I am going on a short break. I felt like it would only be fair to do this before a new month began and people accuse me of scamming them. Please, I only scam the 50-dollar tier.
For quite a while, I have lived in a small and rather old apartment. It has been fine for the most part, but certain things haunt me - such as the lack of heated floors in the bathroom. Seriously, I live in Denmark; it can get pretty damn cold here; I need my heated floors.
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2021-04-28 10:22:33 +0000 UTC
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The three remaining monkeys looked as their comrade was blasted away in shock, but it only made them more aggressive than before.
With one down, he turned his attention to the Crusher. It came at him with tails swinging and arms flailing, now even more berserk than before. It was pretty strong but not very fast, and Jake easily evaded its simple movements as he took out his melee weapons.
In a fluid motion, he ran his palms over both, drawing blood and coating them in Blood of the...
2021-04-27 10:31:37 +0000 UTC
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The figure leaped from atop the tree as it flew several hundred meters through the air, landing on another crown before swiftly taking off once more. A few beasts below considered attacking, but once they felt the difference in grade and power, they swiftly changed their minds.
It was far over three hundred kilometers from Haven, and the density of trees was only increasing, as well as many of the beasts now reaching around level 80. It was a bit deeper in than where Mystie and Hawkie h...
2021-04-26 10:51:16 +0000 UTC
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Sylphie opened her eyes as she saw the human appear again back at the lodge. He had only been gone for a few minutes, but he looked like something big had happened as he instantly closed his eyes and entered meditation. She was a bit annoyed at not knowing what was going on, but she would be a good bird and not disturb him.
She was kind like that.
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Jake replayed the feeling of being the Wyvern and tried replicating the same experiences in his body repeatedly. He ignored th...
2021-04-21 10:50:46 +0000 UTC
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Jake closed his eyes as he focused on his Path of the Heretic-Chosen as he tried to get it to activate – just long enough to make him wonder if he hadn’t reached an adequate understanding of any of his skills. Which, to be fair, he could perfectly understand. Jake himself was full of doubt about what exactly he needed to understand.
Yet just as this thought appeared, the skill reacted:
Do you wish to experience the Legacy of the Malefic Viper? Uses remaining: 1
2021-04-21 10:50:21 +0000 UTC
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When Jake got his class upgrade, not much happened, honestly. He just got some cool-ass skills, and that was about it. Yet this time, he felt something else than skills right away… something a lot like when he communicated with Villy.
A warm flow entered his body as he felt his intelligence stat increase, and at the same moment, a system message appeared.
Your bond with the Malefic Viper is further strengthened as you reforge your karmic connection, claiming partial domi...
2021-04-21 10:50:11 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
Once more I dump my load of chapters all over you. 4 shall come this day, one for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and a weekend chapter, so the next one will come on Monday (the 26th of April).
<AUTHOR NOTE OVER>
“Dum di dum di dum,” Jake sang in a humming tone as he swayed his head back and forth, both hands on the cauldron. He was naturally making even more mana potions but also doing something else equally impor...
2021-04-21 10:49:57 +0000 UTC
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Jake landed back in his valley with the two slightly listless hawks. The fight had been entirely one-sided, and they knew it. Sure, the two of them hadn’t gone all out, far from it, but it was obvious… neither had Jake.
He had only used class skills from start to end, not even summoning his wings during the fight. He didn’t use any poisons or anything alchemy-related at all, limiting himself significantly. Heck, he hadn’t even used Limit Break at the safe 10%. From start to end,...
2021-04-20 11:03:38 +0000 UTC
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Felix walked out of his small treehouse and took in a deep breath, enjoying the refreshing air of Haven. One would think that having a city inside a forest would get annoying, but Felix enjoyed it quite a lot. It did help a lot that no beasts were wandering about, and the number of insects was also far fewer than one would expect.
The builders even had an enchantment of sorts that made all those small lvl 0 insects avoid people’s homes, which did wonders for having the windows open ev...
2021-04-19 08:57:22 +0000 UTC
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Jake momentarily basked in the feeling of his new class, even if it was only a few stats gained. But as with the last class upgrade, it came with a bit more than a few stats and a fancy new notification for every new level.
It came with skills. Well, the first of which wasn’t really a skill but an upgrade to an existing one.
[Big Game Hunter (Rare)] – A true hunter seeks not the easy prey but a true challenge. Having hunted bigger and stronger prey than most, the A...
2021-04-13 12:44:30 +0000 UTC
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As he accepted the evolution, he was instantly greeted by five options – the maximum. This was, of course, expected as he had done plenty of things to warrant them. He had hunted down powerful foes and even slain the King of the Forest… even if his mask now carried an ominous message.
His confidence was growing, as he did the same as always and began going through the options one by one. The first of which was a direct upgrade to his Ambitious Hunter class.
Avaricious ...
2021-04-13 12:17:45 +0000 UTC
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<AUTHOR NOTE>
People seem to want all the class evolution chapters now, so another two chapters will also come out within the next half an hour to an hour. This does mean that the next chapter for the hunter-tier will be on Monday (19-04-2021).
FYI, next week will likely be a chapter dump too with the profession evolutions.
<AUTHOR NOTE OVER>
”The new housing complex in the western district is nearing completion, but we...
2021-04-13 12:02:16 +0000 UTC
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Jake’s bloodline had been with him from the very first day of the system; heck, it had since his birth. It had saved his life more times than he could remember and been the catalyst that made his rise to power possible. But one had to remember that while a bloodline could most certainly be helpful, it wasn’t always.
It wasn’t a skill, and it wasn’t regulated and controlled by the omnipotent system to make sure it wouldn’t cause unnecessary harm to the user. Even the skills tha...
2021-04-13 11:13:40 +0000 UTC
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Jake opened his eyes within a vast void of nothingness, the only thing visible being distant star-like objects. It was his third time there, and it was as beautiful and wonderous as ever. He was entirely naked, except for his mask that was still for some reason on his face.
The first time he went there had been the most wonderous as it marked the day he became able to passively sense mana, while his E-grade evolution had been a bit less exciting.
Like all the other times, the inte...
2021-04-12 10:58:48 +0000 UTC
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Jake sat on his porch, staring out unto the pond as he pondered – pond-pun intended.
It felt like forever ago that he theorized that the nine stat-giving skills with “Of the Malefic Viper” in their names were actually part of a larger set, and so far, he felt like he had only been proven right time and time again. They just had way too much synergy not to be.
So when he got the ninth one to Ancient-rarity, he had expected something to happen. He knew skills could fu...
2021-04-11 11:09:38 +0000 UTC
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Four more levels in his profession remained until he would finally be capped in both that and his class. Those four levels could be relatively swiftly gained by just grinding out poisons, but he still needed to improve Touch of the Malefic Viper before that.
It was the thing that had filled his head before this entire arcane-affinity thing came out of nowhere. He had even sat days in meditation to delve into the Sagacity skill to study transmutation and how to do that properly.
Th...
2021-04-10 11:13:01 +0000 UTC
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Miranda was tapping her fingers on the table as she stared at the system menu in front of her. She soon noticed she hadn’t actually read a word as her mind was far too distracted. She couldn’t help but regret the weekly ritual she had created where she would go meet the owner at his lodge and bring him up to speed over a bite of food.
At the time, it had seemed like a good idea, but now she couldn’t help but consider it incredibly silly, if not downright disrespectful and blasphem...
2021-04-09 11:23:03 +0000 UTC
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Jake felt like he had to make a confession after hearing the Viper explain all that stuff about arcane-mana and arcane-affinity.
He… didn’t really get it. Not really. More so, he didn’t really get how he had somehow created this arcane-affinity. Was it just because he wanted his pure mana to be better without compromising on purity? That he kept condensing his mana bolts instead of mixing in other affinities?
Jake voiced his confusion, with the Viper trying to explain how it...
2021-04-08 11:06:29 +0000 UTC
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Jake sat back in his lodge, happy as a clam with how the last day had gone. He had killed the accursed D-grade mega-mushroom, gotten a bunch of valuable alchemy ingredients, and to top it all off, even discovered a hidden dungeon!
Eliminating the fungus was not only a good idea for his own mental health, but based on a bit of surveying he did afterward, it was also a good thing for the city. The damn thing kept growing by the day, and it was only a matter of time before it would make it...
2021-04-07 11:22:34 +0000 UTC
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Absolute mayhem. That is the only phrase Jake could use to accurately describe the chaos happening inside the biodome.
Vines were flying everywhere, random bolts of mana fired at anything moving, and all the poor insects that were just crawling around the biodome minding their own business were ripped to pieces. The fungus didn’t even look like it tried to absorb them; it just killed them and evaporated their bodies.
Jake just sat there, patiently monitoring the poison.
2021-04-06 11:12:41 +0000 UTC
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Jake sat in mediation with a sword placed on the palms of his hands. He slowly began using Touch of the Malefic Viper as he pushed the corrupting mana into the blade. He felt it resist at first, but Jake was too strong for the metal, and soon he forced his energy into it.
Like a trillion microscopic tendrils, the mana invaded every part of the blade, coloring it from its old steely color to a dark, almost entirely black, palette. The mana it gave off grew with every second as the blade ...
2021-04-05 11:56:56 +0000 UTC
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Jake smiled as he took a deep breath of the toxic concoction. He felt the fumes enter his system and quickly be eliminated and turned to mana, but he also felt the potency of what he had just made. Even if the fungicide wasn’t made to kill humans, a person sure as hell shouldn’t risk getting it on them.
He didn’t delay quickly bottling up the fungicide. He didn’t get a lot of it, only enough for two of the small bottles, but the most important thing was that he had succeeded.
2021-04-04 11:44:16 +0000 UTC
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Jake raised his arms as the thunderbolt hit him, sending him tumbling back. His entire body was smoking, but his Scales of the Malefic Viper had nullified most of the attack. He took out his bow again as he side-stepped a massive blade of wind coming towards him.
The wind blade tore into the clouds below, cutting off a huge part of it and sending all the surrounding birds and elementals scurrying even further away. Jake smiled a bit as he fired a Splitting Arrow towards the small bird t...
2021-04-02 07:40:41 +0000 UTC
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Miranda returned to the office building as if nothing had happened. In reality, only a few moments had passed, but to her, it had been several hours while she had been whisked away into the realm of three gods.
She sat in her chair in a daze, trying to comprehend everything. A few days ago, she saw Kenneth as a fanatic for believing in some new god that she believed to be make-believe. Now, she had just come from a meeting with three freaking gods. From what she gathered from Jake, gods...
2021-04-01 11:24:17 +0000 UTC
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Jake had to admit that it was actually quite impressive he could have so many talks with Miranda without ever bringing up the subject of gods. He had honestly just come to assume everyone knew about gods being a real tangible thing. Maybe his view on the topic was a bit skewed, though. Just maybe.
So, when Miranda came to his lodge for their weekly meetup, and she brought up the topic, Jake just listened as she ranted a bit about someone wanting a temple. Apparently, a follower of some ...
2021-03-31 11:32:50 +0000 UTC
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Jake felt an itch on his right side that he just couldn’t scratch. The kind that felt like it was just below the skin. It woke him up as he tried to rub it anyway. But… his arm didn’t move. He finally opened his eyes but found the sight in his right one blurry.
Oh… yeah… Jake thought as he remembered what had happened. A quarter of a second. No, even less than that. That was the difference between Jake perfectly avoiding the attack… and losing half his body. He move...
2021-03-30 10:56:46 +0000 UTC
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Jake walked through the cave again, the first time in quite a while. He was heading for the biodome with the Indigo Fungus, ignoring anything on the way. He was just there for a few samples… but he wanted to test a few things if he was there anyway.
He wanted to test how effective the poison mist from his Wings of the Malefic Viper was and to try and fight the mushroom a bit. He had already made a dozen bottles of common-rarity fungicide, and he wanted to test the effect of those too....
2021-03-29 10:48:19 +0000 UTC
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Jake saw Miranda leave and reentered the lodge to continue his work. It was a nice break to get once in a while when she came by, and he often got something quite valuable out of it too. Today, he had gotten the idea of actually using the city to his advantage.
The issues of upgrading his Touch of the Malefic Viper and Sense of the Malefic Viper had been bothering him more than before these last few days. Especially so after he had reached level 80 in his profession only a few ...
2021-03-28 10:41:35 +0000 UTC
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She dodged the attack as she vaulted backward, a few strands of her long hair still caught by the sharp claws of the beast. With her back bent like she was trying to win the world championship of limbo, her stance was a bit awkward as another claw descended towards her body.
In an impossible move, her entire body swayed to the side as if she didn’t have any bones. Simultaneously, she pushed off the ground with her hand and landed a solid kick on the huge three-meter tall bear-like bea...
2021-03-28 10:41:27 +0000 UTC
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The wheel of time spun as the days passed one by one.
Beasts fought, humans struggled to survive and expand their settlements, and a good deal of them battled to claim the many Pylons still scattered across the planet. Every Pylon was far apart, often separated by thousands if not tens of thousands of kilometers.
Jacob had taken fourteen days walking with his entourage to the Pylon second-closest to where he had arrived back on Earth. Granted, he hadn’t rushed, but it was still ...
2021-03-28 10:41:14 +0000 UTC
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