Zogarth

Chapter 154 - Clouds & Brimstone

Jake flew up into the air as he headed towards the cloud island once more. His mood was pretty good for most of the flight, but he ran into one tiny little issue a few hours later. He couldn’t find it.

Now, how does one lose a giant cloud the size of countries with a tree on it the size of a mountain? Quite simple; you just need to have the same sense of direction as Jake. How it was possible for him to be that incompetent at finding things with his supernatural intuition was quite fr...

Chapter 153 - An Agreement With the Incompetents(?)

The next few hours were relatively peaceful as everyone worked together to clean up the valley. Neil and his party were in the lodge scrubbing the floorboards like their lives depended on it, while all the others went around and gathered up the corpses of their former comrades.

Nobody judged others for looting them either. All the equipment was sacked, and to Jake’s surprise, offered in a big pile to him and Miranda without any prompt. Showing once more why both Donald and Abby had pr...

Side Story 11 - Good Boys, Bad Mice, New Friends

The mighty beast battled with the valiant human. A wrestle between two opponents, the fight appearing to be equally matched.

Their objective was the mighty artifact. The beast held it within its maw, struggling to keep it in its possession. Meanwhile, the human used both his hands to try and obtain the sacred item. Yet the beast refused to relent.

Finally, the human used a feint, making the beast believe he had surrendered. For but a moment, the mighty beast relaxed, allowing the ...

Chapter 152 - Killing Monsters = Loot 4.0

Jake felt a bit better after getting a better understanding of his own emotional situation and even deepened his insight into his bloodline. Perhaps it was indeed just a faux feeling of enlightenment, but it lightened his heart, nevertheless.

At least enough to move one point down on his list of things to do. One of which was to check his many status messages he had gotten during the fight with Abby and her scumbag dad. Speaking of which, he began with the kill message for him.

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Chapter 151 - A Bit of Self-Reflection

Jake let go and looked at the corpse on the ground. Her bloodshot eyes still wide open, staring back up at him, with black veins extending from her face and unto her entire body.

Sighing, he turned his attention to the stunned observers around him. Many of them were still getting back up from the blast Abby had released not long ago. Some of whom would never get up ever again.

In an oddly ironic series of events, Abby had ended up killing even more of her own men than Jake had. He...

Chapter 150 - Barely a Fight

Abby was furious when she saw her father take a dagger to the stomach. Not afraid, just angry. She didn’t think the blow was truly dangerous as they had both taken far worse before and walked away easily.

Jake flew back and landed on the ground nearly a hundred meters away. A bit surprised at the speed at which the blast of space mana had reached him. He hadn’t really taken any damage from it, but he had to admit that it did hurt a little.

Standing up straight, he saw the man ...

Chapter 149 - Anger

Jake felt his vision practically turn red as he flew down. He was still accelerating as he pushed mana into his wings to fly even faster and at his top speed approaching what was once the sound barrier. Hundreds of meters passed every second.

The last time he felt this amount of anger was when he met William the second time in the tutorial when he had felt the same surging bloodlust beckoning him to killed him.

He didn’t think as he soared through the sky. It would only take him...

Chapter 148 - Incoming

Everything was buzzing as she acted almost on instinct. A transparent barrier instantly covered the entire lodge, followed by another bubble overlapping with hers only moments later.

Silas charged forward with his healing already on full display to keep Levi alive. Hank quickly came over to the screaming man and forced a healing potion down his throat, quickly flooding his body with vital energy.

“Well done, Neil, I wanted to rip him apart from mouth to asshole. Nice tilting of ...

Chapter 147 - Unbalanced

Miranda sat on the small stairs leading up to the lodge. She watched the intricate patterns drawn on the ground by Neil as he was still trying to improve the magic circle – a massive formation covering tens of meters all around the lodge.

Hank was working with Christen to make him a better axe. She was a blacksmith and was more than happy to help when he asked. Though Miranda was pretty sure the young woman just felt terrible about the situation, she had put him and his two kids in. 2021-02-14 13:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 146 - Familial Conflict

<AUTHOR NOTE>

The 10-dollar Hunters have spoken and blessed us all with weekend chapters at the sacrifice of their side story. Blessed they be.

(Will also be a chapter tomorrow, effectively bringing the advanced chapters to 25 ahead of RR)

<AUTHOR NOTE OVER>

”It’s hard to believe,” Levi said as he stared at the blue bottle in his hand. “How do you even make something like this?”

“How do you shoot magical b...

Chapter 145 - Visitors

It had all started four days prior.

The house's construction was pretty much done, and Hank was considering making some simple pieces of furniture. They also had a sit-down to talk about plans to make a few more buildings elsewhere for themselves.

That is when Miranda got pinged by her skill that others had entered the Pylon of Civilization’s area of influence. Other humans. She was immediately filled with a paradoxical feeling of both concern and anticipation.

Concern abo...

Chapter 144 - Not Again

The life of a Cloud Elemental was truly sad. Their only comfort being low intelligence, making them unable to comprehend exactly how much it sucks. For them, living more than a dozen hours was an outstanding achievement. Managing to actually fight back and slay an attacker even more so.

Birds hunted them every hour of the day. All of them long familiar with the elemental’s attack methods and defensive measures. And now, even a winged human had joined the fray to hunt down the poor ele...

Chapter 143 - City Lord

Meditating on the small island of clouds sat Jake with the hawk lying beside him, wings out to its side. It hadn’t even bothered to perch itself on the crystal tree behind them, too exhausted to care about its dignity.

Jake had used Identify on it on their way to their little island and seen that their struggles had paid off for the bird. It had gained yet another level in only one fight.

[Galesong Hawk – lvl 92]

He, too, had gotten plenty of gains. Not ...

Chapter 142 - Look at Me, I'm the Mage Now!

Power crackled in the air as three blue bolts appeared - all of them looking like small crystals as they floated above his head. He fired them towards the Cloud Elemental with a thought as it was still struggling to reform the parts of its body that were already missing.

But his bolts weren't its only problem. Just as its arm reformed and tried to counterattack, a blade of wind cut it off, and a gust dispersed the cut off arm. And right in time for another three bolts to hit it square i...

Chapter 141 - Mana Bolt

Jake sat on a small cloud away from the large continent. The bird perched in a tree beside him. He was breathing heavily still from his nearly empty pool of mana and low stamina. Even his health was only at around half.

The cloud elemental was far harder to deal with than he had predicted. Luckily the hawk did wonders against it. Its blades of wind cut off parts of the cloud elemental, with another blast of wind dispersing the cut-off part into nothing.

Even then, it took the two ...

Side Story 10 - A Brief Look at 10 of the Most Dominant Races of the Multiverse

A Brief Look at 10 of the Most Dominant Races of the Multiverse

The purpose of this article is to serve as a brief summary of ten of the most numerous races/race archetypes of the multiverse. The article has taken certain liberties with the definition of a race, and some major race archetypes have been places under the same overarching umbrella. The reason why this is - and can be - done will be explained in each individual chapter.

Note that this is in no way a...

Chapter 140 - A Cloudy Forecast

Jake would never claim to have in-depth knowledge of the happenings in the sky. He would never claim to be a meteorologist or a weather forecaster. While he had managed to get decent grades in physics and chemistry, he for sure wasn’t an expert.

But, despite his lacking knowledge, he was pretty sure that clouds weren’t supposed to have trees growing on them. About as sure as that one shouldn’t be able to walk on said clouds. This is precisely why his current situation was a bit pe...

Chapter 139 - Going Up

Chugging a health potion, Jake opened his eyes once more and wiped the blood away. He was currently flapping his wings, trying to keep himself in the air as he saw the hawk gaze back at him like he was an idiot for talking into thin air. But its look was now not only of ridicule but now containing a hint of fear and respect, which gave him a silly sense of satisfaction for one-upping a freaking bird.

Villy being a peeping tom was something he honestly didn’t even notice anymore. Maybe...

Chapter 138 - Viewing Party

Archery had for many years been a vital part of Jake's life. It was his escape from work, stress, and intrusive thoughts before the system, and after the system, it was the tool that allowed him to fight and survive, especially in the beginning.

So not getting the skill upgraded to anything higher than common-rarity after so long had been a real thorn in his side - an annoyance every time he opened his status menu. It was only made worse by his intuition telling him he was oh-so-close t...

Chapter 137 - I Believe I Can Fly

By far, the King of the Forest was the strongest enemy Jake had ever faced, yet he had won in the end. It was a hard fight, sure, but he always kept his head cool to look for a way to victory. A mindset he had kept from then to now.

He thought the King would be his most significant challenge for a good while… until he met it.

It was more insidious than any enemy he could ever imagine. Its cruelty and evil instincts were overflowing with every one of its actions...

Chapter 136 - How To Train Your Dragon Wings

He flew through their air like an elegant bird. He soared as no human had ever done before. By which he meant, failing miserably and falling a hundred meters, all while flailing his wings uselessly before smashing headfirst into the ground.

Only a quarter of an hour earlier, he experienced the wonders of having wings for the first time. Unfortunately, unlike most other skills, this one didn’t come with as much innate knowledge as one would hope, which is to say, nothing on how the hec...

Side Story 9 - Karroch (Ft. Perpetual Confusion)

The legendary Karroch, a being that had risen through the realms as he fought valiantly. Born on a small planet, he had to fight for his tribe from birth. At the age of 19, he tamed his first beast and begun his journey as a beast tamer.

He was a true genius, and his father couldn’t be any more proud. He reached D-grade at the age of 23 as he became the youngest elder the tribe had ever seen. He already had a dozen tamed beasts at that point, all of them D-grade like him.

The wa...

Chapter 135 - First World Problems

Jake sat cursing to himself near the cave entrance he had exited just a bit over a day ago. He wasn’t here for a rematch with the Indigo Mushroom, but instead just to do his alchemy. The reason for his sour mood was because he, in his stupidity, forgot the book he was right in the middle of reading back at the pond.

Could he go back and get it? In theory, yes. Would he? Hell no. They had already begun constructing his new house, and Miranda, together with Louise, seemed very adamant a...

Chapter 134 - Construction plans

Jake felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders as he saw Miranda leave. Keeping up his professional persona did take some effort, but he was happy that it wasn’t that bad to interact with Miranda.

For the last two weeks, the lost potential of the Pylon had been bothering him more than it probably should. Jake knew the offered profession was powerful, and he was curious to see what it could give. But as he didn’t have any desire to pick it up himself, it was just...

Chapter 133 - Delegating (avoiding) responsibilities

Jake had been more injured than he had first thought. Then again, he did have quite a few giant needles pierce into his chest and attempt to suck him dry of any and all vitality. Nevertheless, it wasn’t something a healing potion or two couldn’t fix. He quite honestly felt bad for all those out there without the ability to get themselves healed.

If he had to rely on his natural regeneration, it would take days to heal the last bout’s damage. To restore his entire 10000+ health poo...

Chapter 132 - Big Blue Mushroom

Truly disappointing, Jake thought as he looked at the now-dead Alpha Mantis Scyther. A level 89 beast that was the lord of this biodome reduced to a headless corpse in what couldn’t even be called a real fight.

If he had to compare it to something, it would be the Den Mother. And not in a favorable way for the mantis. Despite it being seven levels higher, the Den Mother had been stronger. More importantly, it had a much higher level of intelligence and many more skills in its...

Chapter - 131 - Two kinds of people

Jake stood on top of a large purple mushroom as he inhaled deeply, taking in the atmosphere. This cavern, which he had decided to now call a biodome, was truly interesting.

On the ground beneath him lay tens of dead insectoids. None had been a threat, but all of them insanely aggressive, nevertheless. The beasts above had either scurried off upon seeing him or at least been hesitant. These insects didn’t give a damn.

Which naturally resulted in their untimely demise. One chargin...

Side Story 8 - Good Boy

Howard got out of the barn, wiping grease off his hands as he walked back towards the small farmhouse. It was soon time to harvest season, and he had to make sure the old machines still worked properly.

As a small-time farmer, it was hard to compete with the large corporate farming industry, so he mainly relied on small farmers’ markets and high-quality organic products. He was proud of what he did.

Entering the house, he began making some quick breakfast as he called up the sta...

Side Story Ideas

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Note that this vote is just a guideline and not an actual decider of which Side Story is made or the order in which they come. Yes yes, I am a tyrant, I know.

There is a lot and you can vote multiple times. 

Chapter 130 - Going down

That was pretty cool if I say so myself, Jake thought, as he walked off, looking as cool as he possibly could. It had nothing to do that he had no idea where the hell to take the conversation after his whole ‘murder is fine’ speech.

Besides, maybe it was time to go for a bit of a walk. Jake hadn’t left that small valley for the better part of two weeks before today. While some immortal god may scoff at him for thinking of that as a long time, he did feel like it was.