“How many are part of the original clan?” Miyamoto asked as he looked at the proposed city plan.
“A faint minority by now,” his great-niece answered, her fanged teeth showing slightly as her mouth opened and closed. She was one of the many vampires from the Noboru clan and a leader who advocated for as many members as possible to “embrace the power of blood.”
“However, even with that being the case, their loyalty is unquestionable,” she continued. “Especially wit...
2025-09-15 11:17:21 +0000 UTC
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“Having the Golden Forest King back will be a great help in stabilizing the beast factions that have formed all across the planet. While the Sky Whale is doing a good job, he is ultimately limited by his potential and talent. His evolution to B-grade helped tremendously, but in the end, he’d progressed primarily through system-provided natural treasures, harming his foundation significantly,” Miranda explained to Jake as they sat watching the fight between the King and Draskil....
2025-08-22 11:20:43 +0000 UTC
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One had to capitalize on opportunities once given, something Miranda was well aware of. When the Sword Saint had made arrangements to send word that the four were returning to Earth, she knew she had to make use of it.
While she would argue Earth was very stable despite its hectic political environment, its situation wasn’t entirely ideal. As someone carrying the Divine Blessing of the Witches of the Verdant Lagoon, Miranda was offered some respect, but she was still viewed by many as...
2025-08-21 11:14:50 +0000 UTC
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Jake looked at Meira, but the high elf didn’t look like she intended to say anything as she instead simply bowed toward him. “I believe it’s only proper that I should also leave Lord Thayne to his personal matters. Thank you for the talk. I truly appreciate it.”
“No problem,” Jake muttered, still unsure if Artemis and Meira had shared a telepathic message or if it was just some weird tacit understanding that he didn’t have the ability to comprehend.
“If Lord Thayne...
2025-08-20 11:20:16 +0000 UTC
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Meira had been both relieved and gotten more nervous when she heard Lord Thayne had arrived with the rest of his entourage at the teleportation circle. Armed with that knowledge, she knew he would soon arrive at his residence, and Meira got herself ready mentally for when that would happen.
As expected, it didn’t take long before he was there. Incredibly nervous about seeing him for the first time after so long, Meira flew over to his residence and prepared to knock on the door as he ...
2025-08-19 11:18:04 +0000 UTC
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“So, remember kids, nothing happened on the way here, and it was a smooth trip,” the Malefic Viper said to Jake and the other C-grades. “Of course, as mortals, the void still takes a toll, so you may be a little out of it for a few days, but that’s just totally normal void-related nausea. We clear?”
Jake and his fellow C-grades nodded, making the Primordial smile and nod before turning to Artemis. “You go ahead and finish the trip, then.”
Artemis nodded as she went t...
2025-08-18 11:16:45 +0000 UTC
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So... yeah, exposure to the void wasn’t recommended for C-grade mortals. In fact, it was already considered pretty damn impressive that Jake and the Sword Saint had managed to stay conscious despite Oras unleashing some of his power.
Besides his Bloodline definitely playing some kind of role, Jake guessed his constant exposure to the void through his void lollipop had also inadvertently helped raise his resistance to the place.
As for the Sword Saint... well, the fact he was fin...
2025-08-15 11:22:27 +0000 UTC
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“While I cannot commit to a specific timeline, I’ll certainly be visiting soon,” the high elf alchemist said courteously.
“We’ll certainly look forward to when the opportunity arises,” the other high elf responded with a smile. “Now, I shall not hold you up any longer. I understand that the Chosen of the Malefic One will soon be returning to the Order and wouldn’t want to get in the way of anything.”
“You don’t need to worry about that,” Meira shook her hea...
2025-08-14 11:20:18 +0000 UTC
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With most of the gods gone and the situation having calmed down a little, the Viper sighed as he looked at Jake. “Seriously, you can’t even go on one little trip through the void without causing some major incident?”
“Hey, no incidents on the way to the Pantheon of Life,” Jake defended himself. “And I don’t think it’s fair to put any of this on me, as clearly some major stuff is going on that’s way above my pay grade as a lowly C-grade.”
“Yet you’re involve...
2025-08-13 11:14:02 +0000 UTC
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“Do you actually think any of them are involved?” Villy asked Aeon, who had already summoned a big mug and a coffee pot to pour himself and the Sword Saint a drink while waiting. The old man didn’t look like he was entirely quite there yet, and it probably hadn’t helped to be teleported so suddenly.
“Hm? No, why would they be?” Aeon asked, shaking his head. “I only called them here to see if they have any input, as I presume they also want to understand what’s happening....
2025-08-12 11:17:34 +0000 UTC
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For a moment, things were calm once more. Jake stood within the vessel, his eyes still burning as he’d forced himself to witness the scene of Oras’ arrival, despite it searing his brain to do so. Looking around the vessel, he saw that Dina, Sylphie, and the Forest King were all unconscious, with the Sword Saint still aware as two trails of blood dripped from his eyes and onto his robe. He wasn’t doing that well and had clearly strained himself significantly.
Of the five of them, J...
2025-08-11 11:12:39 +0000 UTC
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Divine Bargain? Jake felt it wouldn’t help jack shit. His Umbral Cloak? The Shadow Realm didn’t overlap with the void, making the cloak inactive. None of Jake’s skills would work in a situation like this, simply due to how weak he was compared to those who stood before him.
The formation covering them all blocked any and all contact, and as the skills Jake possessed were part of the system, they were naturally also affected by the barrier meant to seal them in. If something like D...
2025-08-08 11:16:57 +0000 UTC
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Teleporting using the void was just so much easier than going in a straight line. Concepts, just as distance, didn’t really exist within the void, meaning that if one entered it on one side of a universe, they could exit right away and appear on the opposite side.
Despite both existing in the same universe, there was an absolutely massive distance between the Pantheon of Life and the Order of the Malefic Viper, making a brief void-assisted teleportation the most efficient way to get b...
2025-08-07 11:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Traveling across the multiverse was a lot easier with a Godqueen handling the transportation, but even with her, it wasn’t as simple as just teleporting a single time.
With each faction covering its entire domain in massive formations that prevented teleportations going in and out, they would first have to leave the territory of the Pantheon of Life before they could teleport to another universe. This was done by first teleporting to one of the border planets, where they would cross t...
2025-08-06 11:13:25 +0000 UTC
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Jake and Minaga appeared in the familiar garden of the palace Jake had called home in recent times. When he appeared, he instantly spotted a few familiar figures already there, including an exact replica of the Unique Lifeform who had functioned as his ride.
Besides another Minaga, the Sword Saint, and Sylphie were naturally there, but Dina had also come along. Artemis remained within the palace while the King was also still sitting in meditation on the other side of the garden, seeming...
2025-08-05 11:18:38 +0000 UTC
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Jake overlooked the snowy wastes that stretched out endlessly before him. Far in the distance, mountains pierced into the sky, and below him, deep crevices of ice could be seen, monsters dwelling nearly everywhere whenever he felt for them.
As planned, he was back in the Hunting Ground he had briefly visited after getting his World Tree bow and had to go test it. He had told himself back then he would return, and now, while waiting for Minaga to go tell him that the Sword Saint and Sylp...
2025-08-04 11:23:40 +0000 UTC
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Even after the Seeker and Jasper were gone, Minaga stuck around a bit longer to shoot the shit and chat casually. Nature’s Attendant didn’t stay long, though, but just reminded Minaga of something he’d promised to assist with before teleporting away.
With just Jake, Artemis, and Minaga, things were back to not being that tense anymore. Well, alright, from Jake’s point of view, the situation had never really felt tense, but Artemis sure as hell didn’t agree with that assessment...
2025-08-01 11:14:37 +0000 UTC
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Jasper, the lovable little fella, looked confused at all the people staring at him, and it didn’t help matters when the Seeker suddenly proclaimed his desire for the Forest King to hand over his left arm. Things got worse yet again when the King responded by waving his right hand, tearing the arm off at the shoulder, and making it float toward the god.
“If you desire an easily regenerated appendage, fine, but I did not agree to the bet yet, so this is me doing you a favor,”
2025-07-31 10:26:06 +0000 UTC
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The colossal monstrosity of assorted bone and flesh swung its giant hand down towards its foe, leaving a trail of miasma in its wake with every blow. From every part of its body, it exuded an aura of death that sought to turn everything surrounding it into undead.
It was a creature that usually sought the strongest source of life it could detect with the sole purpose of ending that life, but today its ceaseless march had been stopped by a far smaller opponent.
What looked like onl...
2025-07-30 11:17:02 +0000 UTC
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Jake seriously had a hard time understanding how others couldn’t view gods the same way he did. In his eyes, gods were just people who had lived for a long time and gotten really strong, but they remained individuals with all the oddities that came with it.
And the Seeker was nothing if not weird.
He didn’t give off the slightest sense of divinity but looked more like a tradesman living out of his van while going on jungle adventures on the weekend. Moreover, his demeanor was ...
2025-07-29 11:20:36 +0000 UTC
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“You finally succeeded?” Artemis asked as Jake was already sitting down, his legs crossed and his body full of wounds.
The duel with the other long-range archer had dragged on for a good while longer, but with Jake’s sudden upgrade, the balance had been tipped, allowing him to eventually win out. There was also the fact that Jake simply had more resources available, and if the fight had dragged out any longer, he would have definitely won with or without the upgrade.
“Yeah...
2025-07-28 11:20:32 +0000 UTC
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Artemis had truly prepared a varied lineup of archers for Jake to face off against, using all sorts of affinities and concepts to amplify their power. Some were halfway mages who used their arrows as delivery vehicles of their spells, while others used barely any magic to do anything besides making themselves stronger and faster.
When it came to technique, Jake quickly realized that the ability to curve arrows was pretty damn standard, and the only ones who didn’t do it were those who...
2025-07-25 11:20:30 +0000 UTC
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Jake really hadn’t met a lot of archers during his Path so far. Sure, there had been one here and there, but none of the so-called “geniuses” he usually surrounded himself with were archers.
Sure, there was Maria, but Jake had never sparred with her and wouldn’t call them super close. She wasn’t even part of Jake’s “faction” but a mercenary serving under Gwyndyr, who was likely the top archer of the multiverse based on what Jake had heard.
Considering that, her arc...
2025-07-24 11:17:57 +0000 UTC
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He sure isn’t holding anything back, Jake thought to himself as he used One Step to teleport away from the barrage of arrows that descended from above. When they hit, the ground exploded as a massive crater opened up, forcing Jake to teleport one more time to get away without being caught by any of the debris.
After stabilizing, Jake glanced at his opponent up in the sky as he confirmed he was indeed just fighting a C-grade.
[Beastkin – lvl 348 – Greater Ble...
2025-07-23 11:26:27 +0000 UTC
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“So the Ghostvine is dead, huh?” Jake muttered, having mixed emotions on the matter. He’d initially expected to be the one who would eventually take it down, and while he had given the go-ahead for Arnold to handle the B-grade, that didn’t mean he couldn’t have some unwanted feelings.
“Indeed,” Miranda’s projection confirmed. He’d summoned it after Miranda asked to talk so they could have a proper conversation where they could actually see one another.
She had al...
2025-07-22 11:19:47 +0000 UTC
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Miranda adjusted the projection to get a better view, knowing that things were about to begin. At her side stood Lillian and Scarlett, who had also shown interest in observing the confrontation between the B-grade Ghostvine and the mad scientist of Earth.
“You think he’ll kill it?” Scarlett asked as she sipped from a drink. “Plant monsters like that are notoriously durable. While I could likely kill it, it wouldn’t be a fast process and totally not worth it.”
“I don...
2025-07-21 11:23:15 +0000 UTC
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Jake had spoken about the Malefic Viper finding the Shimmershroud Planeswarper a god to bless him partly in jest, but Vilastromoz had taken it seriously. Primarily because he wanted to, mind you.
Introducing talented youth to other gods was a good way to sow positive karma, and it demanded little to no investment from the Viper’s side. All he had to do was share a bit of his knowledge, and it would be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
Finding talented people to bless co...
2025-07-18 11:04:56 +0000 UTC
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Primeval Origin Energy, or Jake Juice as he quite frankly couldn’t stop himself from calling it mentally, was still something Jake had little understanding of. He knew he had it, and he knew some ways to use it, but he still wasn’t entirely sure of why he had it, how much he had, and all the secrets it definitely still held.
Jake had gone into this ritual with the assumption that it would leave him completely drained; however, he instead found himself in pretty good shape. When cons...
2025-07-17 11:12:03 +0000 UTC
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Vilastromoz chuckled to himself and shook his head as he couldn’t help but find the situation funny. Several gods at the pinnacle of existence watched on with interest as Jake performed his ritual to assist the Shimmerfur Warpsnatcher. His dear Chosen had even given them permission to do this, which was quite a privilege. Even if it couldn’t count as a real favor, it was certainly an act that incurred some level of karmic debt, something Jake had no doubt not even considered for a moment....
2025-07-16 11:21:25 +0000 UTC
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The ritual slowly began to come alive as the lines drawn on the ground within the cavern, connecting all the loot piles, glowed with the color of Jake’s arcane affinity as he poured in his energy.
Needing a moment to think as the ritual began winding to life, Jake closed his eyes and calmed down. He had no idea what the fuck was going on or what had happened with Jasper, but he could make an educated guess. The Warpsnatcher had gone somewhere called the Drifting Planes and stolen the ...
2025-07-15 10:57:51 +0000 UTC
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