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Chapter 1290 - Better Best Boots = Confusing Message

🕑 Added 2026-01-23 12:17:35 +0000 UTC

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Matt

I think he’s misusing nomological here. The way it’s being used seems to imply the author thinks it means the opposite of what it does.

Chloe

Knew it. Vesperia is clutch. Add in some Artemis follower buffs, and a green flying half elemental, prone to "Ree" ... and that would be a superb alliance. Tyftc

Parker Bond

Twin worlds? Intriguing!

Sylas Varga

I believe he did address this before, but getting gear that completely filled his possible stats is incredibly hard and a pain in the ass, let alone getting new gear as he grows, but he's also not too upset with his current spread either. And he'd rather have some stats filling up his possible gained stats instead of none. Unless I misinterpreted what you were saying

Greg Alverson

I feel like Jake is still missing an opportunity to get some gear at the order, even if he has the new skill he still needs some stats. He even said his mental stats were not getting the full amount because it was used up by physical. Why not get gear that gives perception so it at least gets the full amount before the skill applies to the physical ones

Greg Alverson

Then why are other gods also forbidden from knowing about him including other primordials

JW Saxby

Tftc 🍻

Jeroen Turkstra

A nice elaborate theory. I’m looking forward to seeing if you’re right

Lynderyn

First Sage is forbidden knowledge because he is who takes people to godhood.

Zogarth

Fix

Peter Smith

It just occurred to me. The Jake Affinity is about Stability and Destruction, and its definitely affected by his immortal bloodline... Space is both the most and least stable element of existence, A horizon is when life and space meet since ahorizon is when a living being seeks the end of their sense of sight... An event hoaizon is when the living can no longer see further into an entity of extremely stable space so stable it destroys all that enters to continue reinforcing its stability... I think Primeval energy is simply the most stable form of condensed energy. And since all energies have both an origin and a concept, that means jake is doing his primeval alchemy wrong, if he purifies an herb or metal to its most fundamental form, and then infuse the essence of the plant into his Primeval energy, then the alchemy is simply mixing the Primal essence into a potion. The foundation is his energy not the plants, which is why he needed access to his gate, how can you purify a concept from a plant if you cant sense what concepts are already there.

Tristin S Alderson

I caught up on Friday from chapter 1229 and have to say even with the "filler" chapters it is worth every penny

Josie

oh my lawd there's a wiki

Numbzy

Sim Jake was a part of the world wonder, really the first event of it. So I could 100% see it being an alternative reality type of wonder.

Jared Bell

Tftc

Nexas Aurelias

Wait Twin planets breathe? Could the World Wonder be a path to potential alternate realities? Like what we saw with Sim Jake way back when? Twin worlds could mean when Jake tskes over the world wonder and has access to this alternate world. Cant waitnto learn more

Nexas Aurelias

Pantheon of life too

Jeroen Turkstra

Why not just the core?

islandcastle11

Tyftc perfect

islandcastle11

Honestly I’d rather it be a surprise. If Jake were to go around cherry picking origins the mystery wouldn’t be there anymore for the reader. The vision with the eggs was a perfect lore drop that nobody saw coming

Takoda Heitz

The Nine Hells are probably another contender for a Malefic/Primal Ally

Jeroen Turkstra

I like this theory. Though it would be even funnier if he was an actual revived first sage at C tier. But bc he’s so capable he can defend it within his domain.

Clint

What are the odds that the First Sage is the Exalted Prima? It feels almost like the revelation that the Battle Master was secretly the War Master, in Nevermore. Prima means first and ‘sage’ is definitely an exalted title… And it would neatly solve several open questions: - Why is the First Sage suddenly forbidden knowledge? (Answer: Because the System is recycling him for a major Event and doesn’t want people using previous knowledge of him to gain an unfair advantage.) - How is the long-dead First Sage suddenly aware of things going on in the new Universe? And how is he interacting with System-given loot and upgrades?? (Answer: Because he’s an NPC Bound God tied to the new World Wonder, not the original man who died a trillion years ago.)

RonGAR

Time to 'Eat the World' w/ Pallet. Great way to test it out.

brjenness

if I was jake I would moonwalk everytime i used one step

Joshua Little

Thanks for the chapter.

ZanSanCho

Tftc Zog!

Little Silly

A non cliffhanger is so relaxing before bed. tyftc

Azayrian105

You know saying that the first place Jake visited was the Gate of Enlightenment meaning that there will be more of these types of features. I wonder what Jake might find and Zogsrth might cliffhanger us with.

Azayrian105

Honestly what has shocked me is how hasn’t he practically taken over the identify skill. It is a core skill based on perception and yet he hasn’t done anything with it.

Sable

Ive been reading the comments but haven't heard the best thing yet. Why hasn't he turned one step into a perception based ability yet? At B grade he should be able to somewhat force it with the concepts and get it to act like a visual stepping stone right?

Tamathon

What kind of toxic space mushroom will Venus have?! I kinda hope he makes a new gardener friend for his future space lab.. or does something that helps him forge another alliance for the event coming up:)

Shadowind

Tftc

Josie

And if Jake changes the planetary core of Venus to a pylon and owns it, would that count as the twin planets being able to "breathe" ? 🤔

Kaladin

I have a theory that the upgrade tokens are derived from future Jake juice and the system taking, learning, and either syphoning or replicating his ability to enhance an object and "restore it to it's prime". The system may do time shenanigans to send the items into the past. I also think his next upgrade of the boots will be with his primal energy.

Bushninja

Jake is about to claim Venus and make it his new toxin garden

Josie

hmm.. if Jake can travel farther the better he increases his understanding of space, then so can his arrows... and with better understanding of the concepts of time AND space, his archery skills *cough Event Horizon cough* is going to get extra scary real quick 🏹 now that I think about it, I kinda want Jake to double check with Aeon if time travel is actually "impossible"

Samuel Jones

I wonder what happens if Jake uses his Jake Juice on an entire celestial object?

Biggy smalls

Idk, like Arnold he’ll want to be close enough to earth to get those juicy earth records. Can he eat the planet and park it next to earth?

Luke Scheffe

The quickest answer for twin worlds is the world wonder duplicating stuff again. The other option I see is perhaps something related to the mystery faction. Mainly because villy doesn’t have any particular ideas, so it’s not likely to be a well known phenomenon.

Josie

and I wonder what it's like for his sphere being out there in space. maybe that'd be a good place for Jake to relax the limits of his sphere a bit and study the concepts out there, without all the sensory overload that comes with being on a planet?

Rewdan

Monday is a very long way off 😟

psy

Forgotten in the inventory like so much other stuff

Ty Cooper

I get one step is amazing but is Jake just letting Arnold do whatever and have fun with it or does he not care he owns a rocketship that fits in a pocket/spacial storage? I would imagine that atomaton ship would get through that whole galaxy in seconds. Is Jake not strong enough yet to just hop around the galaxy? I know there are some a-grades around and whatever and a person trying to chosennap him. Not complaining and I love this and where it is going, plus find Arnold hilarious and his intentions are great. Just always curious about it. I know Arnold is studying it, but wouldn't the guy want to fly around in it a bit with Jake? Tftc.

Ron Whitlatch

New lab location?

Daryl

One Step for Jake, Thousand Miles for Jake

Stephen

Toxic you say? Well. Let's see if we can start to understand the concept of poison.

Josie

First of all, since when did space magic need a permission slip to yeet? Yeeting is how space magic brings home the space-bacon to its space-conceptual home! Why would it need permission to do this?

Josie

What do you mean space magic *unfortunately* requires consent? 😂😭

tigerfishie

Tyftc! I’m so grateful that we aren’t held by our throats over a cliff today, very much appreciated.

Amathew2

Jake’s probably gonna end up getting high on all the toxins and not want to leave.

Josie

Maybe after the Exalted stuff Jake could have Arnold fling him deeper into space over and over again in different directions. He'd get to learn space concept and have a looksie around the solar system while Arnold gets to improve his slingshot. Win win

Josie

Yeah, Elijah's a total nincompoop

Rachel Fisher

Elijah is so frustrating. So not only has he not bathed properly, not tended to his hair, beard, clothes and feet; he's too chicken to go see Sadie after calling her name and thinking about her a bazillion times. NO. Let's kill the warlord who hasn't done anything in over 10 years and you know nothing about so Sadie can get mad and hate you forever for being a murderer and circumventing the laws.

Shandlar

No way he'd rush it that much. Jasper took a couple years and Vespa was even longer to get the ritual circle right. He'd almost certainly want to infuse the heart into a dragon egg instead of trying to do anything from complete scratch, too. That's gonna be complicated to pull off no matter how friendly many flights are with the Order. To do it in 110 days minus the Venus trip? Not a chance.

joel southard

Thank you for the chapter.

Nathaniel France

Hmm if we’re talking making allies, and we have a specific very strong dragon lady as part of the dragonflights, I think it would be logical if he did his dragon creation project sooner rather than later.

Josie

and honestly? Jake could probably make a deal with the United Tribes in exchange for reviving a long lost species. Is that transactional? Hell yeah, but they could let him select a species he likes from a list 🤷‍♀️

Josie

It's okay, Villy, you have a way to form an alliance with Valhal for this world wonder. Just tell Valdemar he can have custody of Jake every other weekend and Christmas

Phoenixdrop

Hm well this trip should be pretty good for his palate can’t wait to see what those acid rains have cooked up in terms of poison

DeAndrea H

I do feel like at every grade he finds something that is too hard to fight as his current level but he plans to return. The wyvern, the moon monster, the sim of snappy.

DeAndrea H

Interesting but feels a bit like “It was all a dream…” for my taste

Arieh Sochaczevski

Thanks for the chapter! Not a hard rule, but where you used “normality” I’d suggest “normalcy”. Either is potentially correct, but the latter fits better, imnsho.

UNKNOWN

Been awhile since we had a good genocide (in Primal Hunter).

UNKNOWN

I see what you mean. But that would mean the First Sage has an idea of what the system event will be.

atome 4 000

Twinn worlds canrefer to a simulated world.

Josie

In the far off future I hope Jake can master Origin energy and have enough Perception to the extent that he can peer into the Origin of any object without changing the object itself. Just to take a looksie He had a vision of the 100 eggs of the Endless Empire, so it's not inconceivable he can do this to items Maybe even combine it with his Path skill before godhood so he can fully experience the past?

Josie

I also thought of Shadow Jake, he hasn't received an upgrade since the Snappy fight and it'd be cool if he got back more consciousness. That's probably not the answer to this riddle, but it's still fun

Saleh Alhasan

Man I have a theory, what if jake was already a god before and the student of the first Sage, and it was his boots all along , and because he is the Primal Hunter who only crave fighting strong opponents, when he reached the apex as the strongest god he got bored and asked Eversmile to use his Transcendent to remove him and got incarnated as a g grade human just to experience it all again but hard mode or something lol

Jeroen Turkstra

My guesses for what we’ll find on this planet: Elementals Toxic plants Smol cute race that has no place in such a harsh environment. Big boss elemental Some annoying race that gets Jake’s extinction drive going.

Jeroen Turkstra

Ree REE!

Lemonsqueezy

Could also have something to do with Earth and Venus as the two planets are often referenced as twins. The are similar in mass and size.

ABTelford

Great chapter! I love Arnold - he’s so different from Jake and yet the two get along because they old understand each other. 😀

ABTelford

Hahaha! That would be hilarious!

Episode 19

One small step for man, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR JAKE Tyftc

Xander

TFTC :) In before Mondays reveal of a giant basilisk with mushroom minions or giant mushroom with basilisk minions, I can't decide. Did I miss something? I dont recall Jake telling Villy about the messages and in Nevermore I recall him saying he wasnt going to and being circumspect about hinting to Villy he might meet the sage. I have awful memory so maybe I missed it though. Have a great weekend all :) Suggested edits: "currently in *lack* of a temporary melee weapon" should be "need" "entrance *notes* to the true World Wonder" pretty sure this should be "nodes"

Kelvin Garcia

Toxic mushroom monster!

Alex McCracken

The Twin Planets gotta be something with the World Wonder. Its already shown alternate timelines. Who knows what else it could do. This could be the First Sage's World Wonder

Jason Smith

Oooh planet full of toxic air to breathe, time for Palate to shine?

Kyle

Some form of planetary toxic elemental

Nathan Holliday

Who wants to bet Jake finds an A-grade snake monster!

Kyle

I don’t think he will try and influence it with primeval energy yet but I think that would be his end goal.

DeAndrea H

“The First Sage shall return!” I m curious about the twin planets. Is it like Jake and his eternal shadow or some alternate planet in a system event? Or maybe when Jake finally visits the Pantheon of the Starcross Twins? Who knows! When Jake figured out the last clue, I wasn’t like “ooh… I almost guessed it.” It was more like “…I guess that makes sense but I have no idea how he got there.”

AntiqueCynic

What an excellent chapter heading into the weekend! Zogarth was kind this week as far as cliffhangers go.

Antek Dudzik

do you still remember that cursed sword he made during his Dungeon initiation into the order of the malefecit viper if he did something similar and then gave it to Arnold to combine with the finished version of his void katar it would be really really really scary

Antek Dudzik

people still forget one most important thing Jake hasn't upgraded his buff skill since class D and a lot of time has passed since he acquired this skill attuning to his Arcana Affinity because it was still in nevermore

Meir Banon

Tftc

Antek Dudzik

;)

Antek Dudzik

Yes but no

Bookb0y

I love that we’re getting some more exploration.

UNKNOWN

Wonder what the betterest boots will do at sacred rarity.

Christophe H.

How many skills upgrades on Venus ? Palate, one step, maybe scale, and all of those concerning toxic culture?

IntenseSushi

Tftc any guess as to the Venus monster?

UNKNOWN

Maybe it'll also grant perception.

C0bra$

Thank u for the story

Daniel

Venus, Venus, Venus!!!

Ra

Yeah Venus is toxic, just like Midwestern women who are passive aggressively polite (and Britney Spears lol). You can't enter because it's too annoying to do so. 😝

GeneralBlack

Jake eat the Venus. Come on let's start the b grade with a bang. Kill the monster and eat the planet!

Corvid

"Do you wanna eat a plaaaanet? It doesn't have to be a planeeeet" -Jake's repaired palate

Nebulous

Awesome chapter, Zogarth. I really liked this one. Thank you, and have a great weekend!

Fdrugc

He is space walking.

MrCynical

Disagree. I think Jake is going to pretty much wipe out all life or lifelike entities on Venus "practicing" his B grade abilities.

Alexandre8901

Seriously, Jake story is good, but the Sage mistery is just on another level. I mean keep it coming it get's me on the edge each time. Thanks for the chapter!

greg belokopitsky

Look tasty, Lick it jake!

Cmndprmpt

Venus sounds like the perfect place for someone related to the Order. Especially Jake, Chosen of the Malefic Viper. I bet he's gonna get some sick toxin/poison/bane upgrades to his potions.

Aritra Gupta

tyftc

P A J

Looks like One Step is due for an Upgrade!

Daryl

Jake has been known to make friends in odd places, like Jasper at the hunting grounds or the troll from the dungeon. I'm gonna bet Jake meets someone friendly on Venus. In between all the killing, of course.

djthomp

Enough katars to do some silly things with them. I'd like to believe the Pantheon of Life is another easy pick-up for the upcoming alliance for the world wonder. It's nice to know that Venus really leaned into the toxicity post system.

Tyler S.

Mushrooms mushrooms everywhere; its on the cows, on the pigs and it wants a hug

Matthias

Tftc

Den

Upgraded palate is going to have the largest All You Can Eat buffet ever seen in B-grade

Hopeless Harp

Doesn’t Jake have control of the whole Milky Way now?

Siethrobo

Jake REALLY should upgrade his Malefic Bargain skill. Probably wouldn't even be that hard to get to sacred, it is directly related to a god and the stuff he's giving will be over the mythic cap. Might take like a year of Meditation, but what's a year to a B grade?

Cory S.

Well that’s the perfect environment for Jake.

michael geen

Tftc!

Carsten Weber

Time for a healthy poison meal

Kt-x

Oooh!! Thank you for the chapter

Michael mann

So Venus could be a great order outpost if Jake stakes a claim. Constant mana injections for people with a decent Palate skill?

Unwillingmainer

That might piss a lot of people off if the Order and the Endless Empire end up controlling a lot of access to the World Wonder. Though, with how things are now, I don't see a lot of people beside those mysterious kidnappers making too big a fuss over it. Anyways, off to a new and exciting toxic hellhole.