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The Hundred Reigns 116: The Cocagne Affair (16)

🕑 Added 2026-02-27 14:40:00 +0000 UTC

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Ryan N

Dang, that is a devastating chapter for so many reasons. I look forward to Simon dismantling that gang and hope that he gets his happy ending eventually

Nomad

I'm new to the patreon, there's a mardok path? Id change my vote to that.

Nomad

I mean for sure he went after people for crap they did to him in erased timelines. But his bar was probably low on the reasons to destroy people lives. Someone got the last meat bun at a stall he knew about from 4 reigns back? Gonna destroy that dudes like on every future he has.

Nomad

Id leave a picture of hate mace titled no lube but patron doesn't support such things.

GenericName#4528

Void said he didn’t think there were any that would fit the build we are going for with Simon.

FrozenPixel

The level ups seem… meh, but hopefully they’ve more interesting than it seems at first glance, and I’m a little disappointed no crimson king for the next path since it felt like a natural fit with them mentioning the ritual, but this reign wasn’t going to end any other way than things going very wrong. It’ll be interesting to learn more about cobweb, every reign they seem more and more involved, and it’d be interesting to see why exactly everyone joined together against Simon I didn’t expect that alliance at all. Plus people seeing him as past overlord, some left over time shenanigans maybe? Lots of questions, and it feels like we didn’t get a whole lot of answers. I hate to be overly critical cause I do love this story, but this maybe felt like one of the weaker endings to a path.

Don F.

I think that at the beginning of the new reign Simon should apply the brand of Lust to Eole and have her change to a different shifter form, not a Kish. That should take the focus of her for a while.

alejandrox

The death can be attributed to Vouivre or technically to anyone who killed him... it's not specified here who killed him so I guess you can attribute it to whoever you want.

Lucy Severine

Hmm, okay. I'm not quite sure who to attribute this death to in the stats. Voidy, would you mind WOG who actually took Simon down? ... Thematically speaking, I feel like this is definitely a Prince of Spiders kill, though, so maybe I just put that. It would honestly make a lot of sense that a Rogue's kill is by the proxy of other killers. EDIT: with that WOG, we can add a third tally for Vouivre! Reign Enders -Louis 1 -Euphemia 1 -Vouivre 3 -Casval 2 -Lauriane 1 -Mastemo 1 -Thalas (Fall Damage) 1 -Patriate Malphas 1 -Mana Sword 1 -War Party 1 -The Crimson Throne 1 -Balzam 1 -War/Church Party Crossfire 1

Alibhai

I understand your frustration. Counterpoint, there is no need to assume he won't be able to let loose in another reign. I am voting for a mostly fun-filled reign as soon as I see it. I didn't interpret the play as something Simon would find relaxing, perhaps interesting, but not necessarily a 'Good for his mental well-being". Regarding the visionary aspect being sidelined, I didn't interpret the summary of the reign in that way; I believe Simon will explore his visionary side in a way that is unique to him.

Alibhai

It obviously will have to do with him bagging Remedia. The arc was called Cocagne affair after all. It was also the thing the vast majority of comments were talking about.

blib

Good idea, but I foresee a couple issues. 1. Until Simon becomes friendly with Norbelle the Empress is still looking for any reason to have him executed (he punched Thalas and Simon was clearly Balzam's favorite) & she's got Judge's law set to detect any teleports in Frightwall. 2. Louis is the highest known level character thus far at 99 owning Balzam's old Warrior creststone (probably 2nd best after Overlord as he killed Gaurgauth with it), probably is immune to teleport, Louis 1-shot a corrupted Dryad's manatree from miles away, no way he couldn't cut his way out and if Simon dies in front of Norbelle she will know about him in future reigns.

Tr0LLach

What title do we think Simon is getting from this reign? One that blocks his brands being used as a link to him would be the most useful, but the Crimson Throne might go for one that mocks all the grief Simon went through this time around.

Hallow Fear

Wonder if Louis can just be insta-killed at the start of each reign by teleporting him into the acid room. Definitely worth a shot. He always comes back to bite Simon in the ass. Vouivre can likely be defeated by getting within range of her at the start of a reign and then teleporting her forcefully to frightwall. Then she gets hit by the Judge's law, or otherwise surrounded by Simon's allies.

NeoUsui

I'm changing my measly one vote into the Overlord of Crime route. Time for a spider hunt.

Diego Urbina

Simon is way too weak for that. His threat estimate was around level 70, and almost every character in the story has shown to be above their initial threat estimate.

Diego Urbina

Casval is the best option to neutralize the dragons. The generic name is good if he wants to confuse the Oracle.

Diego Urbina

Overall I'm sad we are going into Overlord of Crime, the visionary aspect there will be overshadowed and feel like a sidequest rather than the focus of the story. We're losing a key piece of the story, to pursue a path that can be undertaken at any time. Simon really seemed to enjoy theatre and he never gets a chance to enjoy himself.

JJ

I thought it was an attempt to mimic Emperor Palpatine with the Hellthunder/Force Lightning. “UNLIMITED POWER!!!!”

JJ

UNLIMITED POWER!!!!

McMuffin

What’s Simon’s best move as far as naming the heir for the next reign? Seems like the generic name may be best this next go around and going forward instead of cas or voivre

Gabriel Soares

The King in Crimson LOST!? NOOOOOO!!

Earnest

Things simon should try: get belzamine to pretend to be freed and go with the merchant to infiltrate the oracle and feed him info telepathically. Worth a shot get her to commit to never acting against the oracle directly only talking to him telepathically and the oracle might never be able to see it. See if he can lure anyone important to frightwall before the oracle nukes it to get enemies out of the way. Find a way to remove brands or cut their connection to him. Not being able to remove them makes them way weaker as he basically can't put them on anyone he isn't willing to kill at the drop of a hat without giving enemies backdoors into his soul. Figure out how to use the attic and or the ability for followers to summon him to teleport everywhere important and get many plots going simultaneously, and pick up allies/creststones/zodiac crystals and take out lose ends globally. Hold out for creststone upgrades from the crafter and likely the oracle/librarian. Crafting probably lets him do broken things like making zodiac creststones or messing with abraxis directly or something even crazier and empirically the librarian and oracle seem to be the 2 classes that have not lost and died for several hundred years so they have something crazy going on. Just want to make sure he doesn't waste limited slots on abilities that are only temporarily strong or can be replaced by spells later. Also figure out what is special in that slave collar vouvrie keeps using that makes it able to actually trap a zodiac fiend. The only way he knows to control one requires a yearlong ritual and other ways seem extremely useful. Try to find ways of powering through teleportation locks as those keep killing him (maybe there is a way to move huge distances fast that isn't technically teleportation using chronomancy or soul magic? Idk. Check if stats boosts from leveling other creststones are the same each level or get larger with higher levels. If they are the same then because higher levels take more XP he should plan out a way to get a pile of low level creststones he gets a few levels in each run to maximize stat gain. Learn a good self destruct spell to kill an enemy for XP when he is dead to rights (he even has the ability to survive it and try to drain cows to keep going. Get way more cows or something better.

blib

I think it's one of the Dragons with x2/x3 or Balzam with his traps (acid/paladin/locking bunkers/etc..) depending on how it's counted. Off memory everyone else is at x1. A couple deaths have been group battles where it's not explicitly listed.

Puri Iresan

How much does Simon hate the cobweb and vouivre now? In later reigns, he‘s going to really make them Suffer…

Puri Iresan

I agree. She‘s completly useless and dumb

blib

I like Eole a lot, mostly her personality/design/lore, but she's the most useless companion by far. Shabram/Honorius clan are the MVIPs, then Remedia, then Anna/Laurienne, even NORBELLE has helped more. She's constantly getting caught. Simon explicitly warns her that both Dragons and Cobweb are seeking to enslave and possess her. Simon also just saved her from either Balzam's sex slavery or cannibalism (or both). It would be more interesting if she was forced to use her mental domination to survive juxtaposed versus her life's goal of abolition.

Matthew Escobar

A shame about remedia, she was probably my favorite of Simon's love interests. But, I am super interested in this next reign, although I'm a bit salty we wont be getting lore on the zodiac fiends, we'll finally get lore on the spider and hopefully a chance crush them like a bug(spiders are not bugs BTW)

Rheklr

I suspect he'll do that by curing Fillip, rather than being with her himself.

Zahir Nahasamapetial

Who has killed Simon more times?

Oreo

Can’t wait the moment we put our mace up the rogues a…. Sweet revenge

Lucius

Sad that Remedia's prediction of being killed by the rogue came through. I like to think that the next reign would help Simon focus on building a strong powerbase while operating in the shadows that he can easily rebuild every reign. He has a base of personal base power that he can rely on to keep on growing, but he's missing an actual military force or organization to call his own. Also good to know that the Paladin can be allied with under the right circumstances.

Misatek

Not sure they do. I think the zodiac was talking about Mardok.

Lloyd

Frankly, that was also kind of my takeaway. Mark everyone you can, and their pets. Especially with the new mark. A herd of demonic bovines he can dominate and drain at will - that is how you minimise human casualties. Good luck killing someone strong with a cow, but outlasting a stronger enemy by depleting endless herds of cattle is quite reasonable. Killing an enemy army with all the cows in the realm turned demonic, buffed to hell with relevant perks, and throwing a BBQ with the remains of your casualties: Both epic and very, very Overlord.

reigndrops

Wish he'd picked up the Ranger crestone to see if there was any perks worth absorbing before the reign ended. Now we won't know for a long time since it's unlikely another Cocagne reign is happening soon.

BlaueFeder

After that taunt, no wonder he would want to kill the Rogue next.

Tilen Praprotnik

I hope in one of his reigns he does make Remedia happy and saves Eole. Thanks for the chapter

Jasus

I am not a fan of Simon proclaiming: I am power! It sound to me rather childish. I am the Overlord would have fit better. The gravitas for it is well established throught the curse of the story.

mordante

But Simon's mind can't be read, via a perk, I think. Weird, or it can be bypassed?

Blacklark57

I think the answer is simpler than that. We know from Remedia that the previous rogue stole her mother's ability to fly. They probably have an ability that lets them steal intangibles, so talking memories too would be relatively easy.

Calvin

It's like Stein's Gate. Simon loses something precious every time he dies. His bond with others. I hope at the final loop, Simon can reconnect with Anna, Remedia, Cassandra and Eole.

Publius Decius Mus

Time to clear up some webs, methinks.

Myrdin

Seems that Casval genuinely wants to have friends, so was actually hurt by Simon ‘betraying’ him in previous reigns. Rogue must have an ability that allows him to view memories

Diego Urbina

Nothing is different. Voidy mentioned just the path to get there is different. Its going to be a sidequest rather than the main focus.

Alibhai

You can Google the trope fridgeing. It's one of those things that you see all the time but you might not bother to learn the term.

Touch

Would one Visionary path locked him from others?

Logrus

Ooooooo PERFECT ending to segue into Overlord of Crime. The Rogue is fucked!

GenericName#4528

Most of what he got as the ninja can be replicated by creating a blink spell, and a haste spell. That is why we are focusing on his spell casting, by its nature it is vastly more flexible than other powers, because you can do so much with spell and perks can buff all of them. It’s definitely a good idea to grab the ninja again to level for base stat increases though.

Jannik

Thanks for the great chapter! I am really curious how the rogue learned about the wishes. Maybe he was hiding under the floorboards the whole time… I think it is more likely that he is a creature similar to Gourmand that can consume souls or its a rogue perk that lets him get the memories of defeated foes for impersonation. Simon should definitely be motivated to have revenge, the third wish makes it look like Remedia was ready to leave her husband and find happiness with Simon.

gostsamo

Simon created the coalition that smashed him. He made Louis weak enough to need allies and annoyed the cobweb enough to force them to take a side. The crystals are a game changer and his side were using none.

KAZUHA02

I anticipate the day when Simon gets powerful enough to RUIN all of his enemies. Utterly violate their existence. Especially Gargauth's spawns. There's another thing I want to ask. Void, do you dislike Eole or something?! She's always getting abused and enslaved.

Alibhai

The ninja crestone really impressed me. I don't know whether it's just the aesthetic or something else. But regardless I do think Simon needs more variety in his arsenal. His stat shifting to speed blitz his enemies is a solid addition. Since most of his other abilities seem to be- stand around hit hard and blast spells (it's a bit reductive but you know what I mean). Variety is the spice of life and the lifeline to surviving the apocalypse.

racnor 1

Very good job of making me not mind losing the vote at the end there. Also, even more evidence that the rogue has an equivalent of the merchant's instincts but for pain instead of money.

gostsamo

"I'm power" deserves its own meme.

gostsamo

Okay, skipping on the obvious commentary. One of my hopes is that the cobweb are trying to gather the fiend chrystals in order to make miasma crestones and Simon will unlock this mechanic in the overcrime reign. Trapping the prince's soul in a gem and accidentally torturing it by powering with it a kiln for engraving the crestones in the future reigns would be a side bonus. We have a Silk romance promised, so it possibly will reveal if we are talking a shapeshifter, triplets, or something else. Lots of fetishes will likely show up in the comments when it happens. :D I remember something about the pirate and the necromancer, though might be mistaken. Those seem aligned with the dark side and might have interesting boons for Simon.

Will

With how often Simon electrocutes his enemies to death he is never going to beat the Palapatine allegations.

Kiwilord

I can't wait for the revenge reign, since I doubt the final one be will even be bothering with these small fries

Aglovale Sempai

On 1 hand, getting any levels in this clusterfuck is good. On the other hand, holy shit, Louis isn't even on the front lines and they fucked up the Church Party + Cocagne coaliation so hard Also curse Fridays, I hate Fridays, 2 days without chapters hurts, but not as much as Simon's 15 deaths

gostsamo

Louis is still impossible to bring down and it means that Simon can only distract him and play for time to level up.

granndfunk

Oh I am not going to be happy if others remember the loops. not a fan of that at all.

CentaureHeart

It's darkly funny how all those people won't know why the Overlord goes after them with so much motivation. It was probably the same with Balzam, even if he was a shit head from the beginning.

A Zen

People can't think straight in those scenarios. Hell, real people are losing their minds in way milder situations than this Cut Simon some slack

A Zen

Yeah I get the feeling that that taunt is gonna bite the Rogue's ass down the line

Noah

Thanks for the chapter! This reign was perhaps my favorite one yet, and seeing the fruition of plans made by those Simon couldn’t see was great. I really appreciate how all of the characters are competent, and are still doing things in the background even if we don’t see them. Also, I went to check on the stats page, and the first devour crestone perk specifies that it’s from devour crestone, but the other two don’t? It’s not really that important, but it might be a good idea to make them all equivalent.

ConstanTeen

I wonder how different this chapter would've been if another Reign won the poll... I doubt the last scene would've been here, as it's just a perfect emotional motivation for the Crime route.

Alibhai

Hmmm ..... This is not to say anything definitively or anything but I theorized that was a last-minute edit. As a result of the poll.

Alibhai

In a way, his short reigns have been a blessing in disguise. With a shorter duration of time, they would have fewer chances of being freed and possessing hosts which equals less information overall. The Muse/ minotaur zodiac fiend is the one who probably possessed the least amount of information seeing as they were sealed.

Erik

Man, watching these shit dragons misuse the glorious tradition of minion management is really heartbreaking.

alejandrox

absolutely!!!

Big I

Damn good showing by Simon. He and his allies took out three archfiend vessels.

Tr0LLach

Does this mean all Zodiac Fiends remember the reigns? I guess Simon was yet to interact with any of them multiple times. Should probably hop on over to the Darkwood to check with his beloved Muse. This does kinda mean he should stay away from all of them until the final few reigns so he doesn't give them extra info.

alejandrox

Thanks for the chapter!! Poor Remedia!!! And all she asked of Simon was to make her happy.... REVENGE!!!!! REVENGE!!!!! WE HAVE TO KILL THAT DAMN SPIDER!!!!

Vinson Oey

Dang, how many time Louis turn the table against simon now? What a fun character

Bob1350

The Prince final taunt is something they will regret for the rest of their life, because Simon at this point is petty and vengeful enough to make the Prince suffer whenever he gets the chance and he will be locked in to ensure the cobweb is either burn down or subverted. Also, Remedia final wish will also haunt Simon for a long while and will make future interaction real interesting. Because the reigns where Simon is openly the Overlord, I can see him a lot of concessions to Concage and act sincrely kind & gentle to her. It might weird her out at first, which would be a funny yet bitter scene. Finally, I think this reign will forever change Simon dynamic with Eole. Because he had believed that if Eole is set free, she will be safe. But he now knows that she will never be safe as long as Vouivre is around and I can see Simon either confining her to keep her safe or force her to be with him. Because the alternative is another heartbreak that Simon does not want to deal with.

Troglodyte

So cruel to leave us with this on a Friday. Wonderful as always.

Tr0LLach

I imagine Void chose that ending after seeing the poll. If King in Crimson won there would probably be some sort of abyss-themed ending.

Max Lopo

Starting to really, REALLY dislike Simon. Doesn't want to level up and play detective instead, even if it means wasting reigns? OK. He is stupid, but ok. But at least PLAY DETECTIVE RIGHT!!!!!! This is not the first time he's seen loved ones die. Hell, he just remained cool watching Eole get decapitated. So WHY doesn't he notice that somebody who should know NOTHING of his dealings with the queen just taunted him with information NOBODY should know?!? Sure, someone might know they were screwing like rabbits. Big whoop. But every time they talked about secret stuff (like her wishes) she was taking precautions. And she is THE mage. Oh and the "The only thing left is go down fighting". No, you absolute goober. The only thing left is to use your ONE advantage of retaining information. So cajole, trick, goad information out of this group!!! But nope. He chooses to stoically fight. I swear this guy is trying his hardest to win the "god please I need plot armour" award.

GenericName#4528

The spider and Vouivre are now tied for me as the people I want dead the most. They both need to be slaughtered then have their souls bound to a public toilet.

GenericName#4528

That ending is really sad.

John H

Epic

Ezra Turner

I also hope that Remedia is endgame. My heart broke a tad at the end of this chapter. It was my hope that she would survive Simon’s death, somehow, but I knew that Void would not be so kind.

Antony444

Ha! It took 116 chapters, but finally, Simon killed Casval...and earned himself 3 levels in the process.

Zso Sahaal

Damn. I was hoping for the Mardok path.

Misatek

If only he had more cows!

Frotzy

Prolly one of my favorite reigns so far, excellent arc. Hope to see Remedia again once he starts trying to fit everything together in the endgame. So far seems like the best match for Simon, also they will prolly be close to same age then due to looping, if not Simon actually older.

ThwartedHalo

Wow, this is by far my favorite reign so far, absolute peak. I’m really hoping for Kingmaker soon though, Simon needs a break

Saddy Storm

Damn

Frotzy

Anything other than overlord of crime after that last taunt by the Rogue would be storybreaking imo, very happy it won.

Helios 11145

Well with that ending I overlord of crime was the right choice after all. The cobweb must go down, then the lizard, and finally Louis

Lucius

Finally! Overlord of Crime won!

Void Herald

Oups, forgot that! I've added it in the end of chapter note ;)

Karthic

This story is awesome

Bruno Salque

Tftc And ... Great one, lot of sacrifices and we hope there will be another run with them all :)

Sly Bayesian Fox

That, and the fiends remember the reigns. They'll know to bring more power next time too.

Black Rose

Tftc

Nightmare Lore

That's it. The Prince Dies First From Now On.

Sly Bayesian Fox

Damn, what a reign. Thank you, that was great. Now let's get our Waifu's revenge

Apollion

TS PEAK

Elerahz

Alphonse is truly the best available option for paladin im talking like he might’ve not been in the top ten choices for paladin bro this was honestly salvageable up until that moment Vouivre is honestly funny asf for just saying loser over casvals corpse This final chapter just proves that the cobweb must die otherwise they’ll get 1-3 demon hosts and fuck us over every time