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Chapter 1,341.

🕑 Added 2025-02-24 21:43:24 +0000 UTC

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Sean C Jackson

I hope not I feel like he's already got too many clocks to worry about.

Lucas Gulick

Idk, I see that being more of the role of his crafting skill. Refining his core should be easy with his magic techniques, plus probably spending a few thousand years as a hedgemon - if Ultom 'only' perfects his core then it'll likely get damaged when he's doing other stuff. I think the technocrat base is going to be when he fully shakes the chains of fate off his back and starts on his own path. Odds are he'll get some sort of positive/negative boon like the shards and it'll put him on a yet more aggressive clock

Kirin

Nah think the final trial reward/ending will push him to peak and clear what flaws there are in his core, wouldn’t make any sense to have ultom otherwise… besides clarifying his role in certain things and uncovering some basic truths he’s missing… think ending will give him a new direction for himself, he’s still been running around on others chess boards…

Kirin

Lol who chaos’s grandpa? What is lowkey? 😂😂😂😂😂

Jeff McCulley

There is so VERY much going on in this chapter. Started to write a longer post, just gonna say—I love it!

Jeff McCulley

Pretty sure that Esmerelda isn’t nearly that old.

Jeff McCulley

When I gamed, the DM would occasionally toss I. “Shit Happens” rolls. Zac’s existence is a series of Shit Happens rolls, most of which are criticals.

Jeff McCulley

If I’m reading it right, “Peak D Grade” has twenty-five levels as well. Then Inner World. Has it actually said? Because it just seems to go blank after listing the levels of Hegemony up to Peak.

Lucas Gulick

I figure Ultom will give him a lot of what he needs for the core upgrade design, he probably won't be able to pull off the actual upgrade till he's fighting the technocrats though

Yuh292

Peak D Grade is 225, he just has to level up and then do the most complicated core upgrade yet; setting the stage for his inner world.

Shurjin

No wonder Ogras and Emily like to be around Zac so much... that dude is such a trouble magnet 😂

Jeff McCulley

Well, yeah. The reason to challenge “Everit” is that everyone saw how rich he was at the bazaar.

Jeff McCulley

I think that’s “progressed”. ;)

Jeff McCulley

Just in case you didn’t go look back.., Janos’ wife, Um’Ha, is a botanist. She works with farmers. Astora Theomore has a strong Nature affinity. Not only does she likely know the Earth Son—or at least the Earth Templars—he Dao likely fits even better with Zac’s than Mei’er’s. Adventure with Janos? More like double date!

Jeff McCulley

Interesting theory. That said, I think Grand Dream has Janos’ full attention because he’s the person most likely to know how to get his wife out.

Jeff McCulley

Well, it seems that way…but remember, he’s barely gained any levels since he got here. So he has to go most of the way through Late Hegemony, then all the way through Peak. So, most of fifty levels? He just happens to be pretty ready for when he gets there. Though…he probably wants to use one of those core fixing treasure before long.

Jeff McCulley

Remember that the Earth Son knew exactly who Zac was all along. He told him something like, “All you lack is faith”. I’m starting to think that “Imperial Faith” is something entirely different than what we’ve been assuming. Rather than faith in the Emperor, maybe it’s faith that the Empire will protect its citizens? Because that’s what they keep saying. And, after all, that’s what Zac is all about. Protecting the people of his Empire. And I think maybe that’s what the final Autarch in the Test of Faith actually saw.

Jeff McCulley

I just discovered that Groucho Marx glasses are still a thing. That’s Zac’s disguise, in a nutshell.

M💬

I think his innerworld would be when he goes to the undead empire and the technocrats base… those are the arcs after Ultom, there might be be a little break before he leaves where he just dominates what’s left of Zecia. Also, there’s the upcoming civil war in the empire, and the treasure Zac gets from the Hollow court would change things.

support!

There were more time skips also Zac went through a lot of e grade quickly then got stuck at peak for awhile because of his core and then had to go back and learn techniques. I feel like E grade took so long because he kept having to go and learn new things. I suspect forming an inner world on the frontier will be similar

Kyle Hunter

There were more time skips in D grade than E grade I think.

John

*cough cough crazy right?

Lucas Gulick

Really excited to see a Zac / Janos mini arc, I'm not sure when those two last adventured with just each other. It might have been all the way back in F grade, or maybe early E. Also, anyone else noticed that Zac is blowing through the hedgemon progression infinitely faster than E grade? Feels like we might be less than a year away from him hitting C grade

Tom C

lol, time for Zac to do what he does best. Kick ass and cause chaos! TFTC

Hartmann

I'd guess the Omni Lord we heard from Tavza. His castle is from the Era of Order and even a Throne failed to enter it.

Lizy Flore

I recall Xiphos used the words « specter using human skin ». So maybe they see he isn’t really the identity he’s pretending to be, but they can’t see much else. Well, Xiphos is d-grade. Perhaps those at higher grade have better insight.

DagNabItAll

The trial sort of disguises him, and then the supremacied are in on it, so he shouldn't get serious blowback even if he abandoned any oretense of being that guy.

TKO

Wonder what he was called before Laondio erased him from destiny? He became The Void Emperor after nothing else sticked.

Stephen Taylor

Just to be clear—when they “see through” his persona, what do they see? Do they know they’re figments of a dream?

Alexander Dupree

Everyone is like “I’m special the Mercury Court honored me with a glimps of their might! My fate with the court is writ in stone!” One of the supremacies on stage bows to Zac “Void Emperor.”

Dalton Service

Next arc the fights will start on sight!

DrSubterfuge

It sort of is. He’s forcing Fate with this court and the hand he was dealt was an asshole with a bunch of enemies. Totally makes sense that he’s being challenged.

John

No way in hell this doesn’t escalate. This whole chapter was just laying out a whole stage of folks who most certainly will take an interest in Zac. The way the Theomore ancestor introduced the challenges to Destiny also sounded suspicious. This shit might be rigged

Porter

Eff yes

Palmer Evans

I can smell a big cliffhanger Friday

Hampus K

Hope next chapter is in challengers POV

Joshua Little

Thanks for the chapter.

DrSubterfuge

His persona isn't undead and people seem to be treating it as him using some kind of disguise. I imagine if it was a problem it would have already come up.

Timothy Dana

Are the undead accepted in LE? Will this be a problem?

DrSubterfuge

He's there as Arcaz and his persona uses Death, so that isn't a concern. Using Conflict instead of Order might tip off someone, but yeah there are people like the templar here to help administer this, and the Supremacies definitely know what's going on. If someone does challenge him on it, he's well practiced in giving people non-answers that they just have to accept.

Craig

The supremacies are in on it. They set this up in the first place. They don’t really give a fuck keeping everything believable forever, just long enough to target hostile supremacies (see Emily’s chapters) and to pull off their time fuckery Some of their agents know what’s up as well (recall the D grade inquisitor POV we got a few chapters ago). Historically, the empire was eradicated by heavenly punishment. Compared to overturning that, who gives a shit about what some C grade underlings believe about a subordinate that the C grade will never see again regardless?

Alexander Dupree

lol this will be fun. Also who wants to be the item Esmeralda is looking for is herself trapped here or hiding and she was caught in the spell that dragged the left imperial palace out of time. The curse she is fighting off is actually just being split from herself with that part of her bound here. Freeing herself might need both parts. I’m not sure that’s really what’s happening but it’s going through my head.

Palmer Evans

Can someone remind me how Zac is supposed pass as being Everit under such scrutiny? It’d be suss if he doesn’t use the Dao of Order during his fight, right? Let alone Zac using his Life or Death Daos

DrSubterfuge

I wonder if Grand Dream is the same guy Janos saved. He certainly caught Janos' attention. Would be kind of crazy if Janos was responsible for saving a guy who became a Supremacy. He might even get his wish.

Andrew P

I agree the duel will be to the death. My point is that the challenger has something of significant value to win beyond his life should he win and the one challenged should also win something of value beyond keeping what they've already earned.

MacMahon Wenzl

Zac's "idea" of a secret identity is basically a super cheap fake mustache and large explosions that somehow explode to look like his face...

Andrew

Thank you!

Jeff McCulley

I think he’s earning a lot more than that!

Jeff McCulley

I don’t think he survives should he lose. Imperials don’t mess around. It means he’s not fated.

MacMahon Wenzl

10 seconds into the event -> 1) Spots the GOAT Janos -> 2) Gets spotted by someone from the Vigil -> 3) Gets into a fight... Good to see we regressed from the Tower of Eternity, it took at least 3 days there before he was getting into fights.

Jeff McCulley

Sorting the Court Pillars Order Put this together. I think it’s mostly right. After Zac told us his initial impressions of the locations of the first five Pillars, Yselio added positioning from the Starfall Court. Then Zac just added the general location of the Farsee Court. Making certain assumptions, I think I’ve got it now. Going clockwise, from the Mercurial Court—since that’s where we’re at: Mercurial > Anima > Farsee > Starfall > Hollow > Indomitable > Radiant > Daedalian > Tethered Court. The latter two may be reversed. Reasonably sure on the rest. If you want the long version, let me know. Yes, I did sketch out an equidistant nine pointed circle. Not as easy as you might think!

Andrew P

I wonder if the challenger will need to put up a reward should he lose

Omiso

Time to earn his boat ticket.

Jeff McCulley

It’s Imperials. I’m not sure there will be any limitations. Aside from protecting spectators. And if the Supremacy looks closely to put on blocks…he’s going to find more there than he expects. Guessing “Holy Son” will even pop up. Given that Xiphos’ guardian is up on the stage, I’m guessing everyone up there already has an idea who Zac really is. This challenger might even get a big “Nope!”.

Jeff McCulley

Even before those last couple of paragraphs, I was counting all the ways that Zac’s “secret identity” was screwed. I was on my second hand. And it’s not just Leyara/not Leyara. Not hardly. I figured he’d have a run in with Astora Theomore. I guess that’ll be even more than I thought. Zero chance that she has no connection with the Earth Son or that Templar Order.

Palmer Evans

Haha yes! Zac getting called out like this during the opening ceremony is perfect

Lex Luther S

Bro what a chapter. This truly shows the might of the limitless empire and why they were literally an unmatched force. Very good indeed. And I was wondering if we'd see Janos; glad hes here for the main event. Welp, seems leyara is a constant in many time periods and it may have even been destiny that saw her born into zecia, she herself even meant to hold that flame of hope. Quite interesting with the princess being so beautiful shes an apostle of nature itself; truly her beauty must be divine. And obviously you'd draw attention zac, ignoring the asshole of an identity you picked, you yourself are a magnet for trouble. But, at least he'll get to flex his muscles with this fool. He's likely strong but not at the level of zac. The only issues is what limitations zac will have. Certainly his connection won't be cut off drastically weakening him. But what about the daos. It's known his Id has a death order mixed dao so I'm curious how zac clashing as himself will be seen by these guys.

Jason Bradford

Zac has a gift 😂

Bärchen

❤️

Owen Stevens

withdrawals fr

Jen Ybarra

Bro I was craving this chapter 😭


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