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Chapter 1288 - Rude Interruption

🕑 Added 2026-01-21 12:19:30 +0000 UTC

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Chloe

Training montage check. Check in with SO. Time to start a new Arc. Tyftc

Bruno D. Alvim

that title reminds me of book 8 chapter 7 "A Rude Interruption"

JW Saxby

👍🏼 Tftc 🍻

Jared Bell

Tftc

Josh Kubo

*even allowing him to customize the upgraded item to some extent* Do you think it would even occur to Jake to make the boots Look better? Everyone’s always criticizing them. “You should be able to afford nicer boots “ As his mom said.

Peter Smith

When it doesn't feel like a scam to gather enough to make one

David

Nah....forest king won't ever go up against Jake again. Not seriously. Dude is suffering from major PTJD...Post-traumatic Jake Disorder! 😆

Matthew Smith

So, when is Artemis getting her nice primeval gold ring with a fat primeval diamond on top?

Oblong Hamster

I am definitely hoping for some upgrades to gear before the event. He definitely needs at least 3 swaps.

Yarza Wynn

Wow I feel like this was the perfect pacing of slower and calmer chapters of epic upgrades now followed by soon to be a action filled epic chapters of extreme action

DefinitelyNotMinaga

I cant wait for Jake's reunion with the Sword Saint. I wonder if his new party for the event will be different from nevermore since there are specific requirements some of his previous party members may not meet. I HOPE the old gang can get back together cuz that would be awesome! Stay safe during the upcoming winter storm. Have a plan, stay safe!

_mori

He’s in a relationship now…

Zogarth

Fix stuff

Zogarth

Funny you should ask...

beeve

Puzzle box progress? Jasper?

beeve

What will the fragment be used for? Also can he read more pages the in book the sage left now?

Josie

hmm.. I wonder what ever happened to that ice mountain Wyvern that made vampire popsicles? It's had time to evolve by now..

ZanSanCho

Tftc Zog!

Borbino the great

This would actually be the funniest thing ever and kinda broken

Borbino the great

I think it doesn’t matter if they’re human or not

Borbino the great

Oh it’s on sight

heltok

Jake should get some new B grade gear that synergies better with primal spirit of man. And not just boots, call up Irin for a booty call and get new gloves and some better rings.

Beef Wrench

Yes. Tftc.

DeAndrea H

Humble brag…

DeAndrea H

He would slip into alchemy mode so fast he wouldn’t even remember the Prima Event!

DeAndrea H

William has really grown on me. He was such a turd in books 1 and 2 but now I’m rooting for his redemption arc and for the student to surpass the teacher so he can shake off whatever game Eversmile is surely still playing with his life.

Josie

I hope William shows up. He helped Earth a lot in the last Event

Josie

How bad is Jake gonna want to immediately duel the new and improved Sword Saint? 🤩

NicN

Tftc

Michael Fannon

Jake should definitely have an all human team to test out the effects of his new spirit.

Biggy smalls

He's always been this arrogant.

Mikesch

I honestly found Caleb rather awful in the first books. It was always like: Obnoxious comment with cheeky smile. The almost 30yo teacher and father behaved like the most steriotypical 9yo little brother. Luckily, he isnt that bad anymore, but I wouldnt be sad if he would not appear that much. I would think Miranda would be fun having in a group, though

Corvid

Go team Jake and four Minagas!

Mikesch

Imagine the Prime Event being like Star Wars Episode 2 with its Senat. Jake being stuck in his floating Seat, forced to participate in months of Political discussions. How long would it take for him to snap?

Corvid

"Ah crap, would you look at that. I left the oven on in my nest, gotta go. It'll probably take me until the 94th era to get there and back."

Shadowind

Tftc

Joshua Little

Thanks for the chapter.

Kaladin

He seems to be getting a bit arrogant, hopefully nothing to humbling comes along

Kaladin

"where he stoked up on a few items" -> stocked

DeAndrea H

While I wouldn’t mind a Nevermore group reunion (and man wouldn’t all the others be like “that group has the all time high scorer. Wtf?”) but I also wouldn’t mind some of the other periphery characters coming to the front. My dream group would be Jake, Caleb, Casper, Carmen, and maybe a wild card like Lilian. They all play off Jake so well and I would love to see them interact. Also I love the Jake and Caleb cracking jokes off each other. Their sibling vibe is top notch.

William Stanley

"She didn’t even have time to finish her sentence as she, too, fell silent, likely reached out to be her colleagues at the Pantheon of Life." Im assuming the "be" in this was meant to be "by"? Tftc!!!!!!

Matt

ITS STARTING

Kristoffer

I doubt it'll be televised, but I'm sure we'll get plenty of chapters from the people we know that are taking part, while Jake is working on... Stuff... Meditating on concepts will likely be a big part.

brjenness

anybody else log into discord, see a notification, it says "zogarth mentioned you in a post" and immediately think, "which one of the dumb things I've said pissed him off?" or " are zog and the other patreons talking smack about me?"

brjenness

lol...I think he'll be too high level, but would love to see a return of the rainbow sovereign. his group comes up against some humans and a purple arrow flies by his head. "NOPE. NOT GONNA DO IT. KILL US IF YOU WANT, BUT WE'RE NOT FIGHTING "

brjenness

i'm guessing Carmen and Caleb probably are candidates. I'm working on the theory that ss, vespy, and sylphie are at least candidates. how ss wasn't top 5 is beyond me. were any of cheetoh's people slaying primal single handedly?

Saleh Alhasan

Can't wait to see the Sword Saint using his Transcendent like when he used it against jake , dude is badass

charlesgers s

Ok so any guesses for the 4 me I don't think it will be the same as nevermore and I hope it's new people like Carmen, Caleb, Arnold and Miranda would be cool

Asher Mack

Reminder who wintermaul was?

ABTelford

Nope, he’s got that skill that maxes out his stats now.

ABTelford

😂 omg I hope someone does! That would be hilarious! But I have the feeling it will be limited to natives only.

ABTelford

Woohoo, let’s GO!! This was a good gentle start to what I hope is a long series of action! Both physical and political because we gotta give Jake hard challenges and the physical fights are too easy for him. 😁

brjenness

The first question is who is in the top 5 now. Did 6,7,8 get promoted?

Blutako

Boots with th first with the first, only Jake popping and talking to sage, he used that item used that item and knowledge flowed and knowledge flowed and Jakey got know know know know know

Josie

this 🎶epic love🎶 of a Godqueen has no real foundation, no depth, no momentum.. ... because the character herself is paper mache and will be disposed of at an opportune time for Jake's development

Josie

Ahh.. I'm gonna get in trouble with yall.. I'm outing myself as a heretic 😅 Theory: Artemis is just a plot device slated to go the way of Chris 🪦 Reason: her Origin is cardboard. She has the least synergy with Jake out of all of the main cast. The flimsy reason they are together is bc they like each other's "aura". That's it. That's literally everything there is to their relationship.

tigerfishie

Oh I am READY for this. I really hope we get to see the nevermore team while Jake does whatever he’s gonna do in the meantime. Maybe it’s possible to watch the testing? TYFTC!

Fyrtue

Jake can't be involved in the first part of the event. He's already an administrator so he won't join until the tail end when they decide who's the chief administrator for the Milky Way.

Blutako

Thank you for the chapter papa zogarth

Fyrtue

Unfortunately Jake can't join for the first part at least since he's already an administrator.

Fyrtue

Jake is not eligible for the first part of this event as he's already an administrator (reward to the top 5 after the last Milky Way prima guardian was slain). Who do you all think that the Sword Saint will partner up with and will he challenge Jake for the Milky Way seat or go for a different galaxy?

phil

FINALLLLLLLYYYYY IM SO HYPED FOR THIS ARC

Shandlar

Lesser Jake Juice experimentation is far higher priority than meditating the gates of enlightenment at this point. He prioritized properly imho. If he can figure out how to empower his bloodline with lesser juice, he could go full coliseum of mortals God mode in any battle without draining his origin energy. It will likely take him hundreds of years at the gates to gather the concepts needed to upgrade his legacy of viper skills to B grade mythical, which is likely the fastest path to significant more power from meditation right now. Assuming the go to 27 stats per level. There wasn't enough time for that.

Tristan Lewis

Finally!

brjenness

Who is most likely to bring a low level minaga? Casper?

Cory S.

And..here..we..go

Quinn

Hyped

Cookie in the jar

Ist Boots time 🥾

Daniel Brian

'with everyone stopping to eat' -> 'with everyone having stopped eating'

Ty Cooper

Woo! Tftc

Loststar7

Yeah we’re all pretty stoked too.

Alexander Hallonblad

I can tell you were stoked writing this!

Episode 19

I love when Artemis shows up, Zog knows just when to add the flair of romance and relationship and it’s great Tyftc

Jan

Because skills are inherently linked to the person having them. Items exist separate from any single entity and therefore can objectively judged on how special they are from a multiversal perspective

Biggy smalls

Jake Reminds me of that quote from zombieland, “You ever see a lion limber up before he chases a gazelle? No! He just goes!" Jake never tried out a bane poison or his event horizon skill before fighting a True dragon in Late C grade. He’ll just feel things out like he always has. I hope he upgrades his necklace sometime soon.

Sushi

Kinda random thought, but if skill rarity is adjusted based on your grade, why don’t items like equipment or herbs get identified as different rarities based on ones grade, or at least note the equipment/herb grade? Legendary items for a c-grade are vastly inferior to legendary items for a b-grade.

Siethrobo

Jake can't compete in this event. It's for Administrator candidates and they can't bring Administrators. He's just going back to earth to ~~flood the B grad potion market~~ Help his friends.

Siethrobo

Jasper's not from the 93rd universe. He's also probably too high leveled.

Siethrobo

Jake can't compete in this event. He's an Administrator already, this is only for candidates. He'll be part of the later chief administrator event.

Higher002

We haven't had any updates on the people who try and snatch Jake in a while, I wonder how that will be worked into the event.

Carl Never

Nalkar i think

Josie

I don't think Jake is taking this Event seriously enough. He's had a year in B grade and he hasn't even tested out his Class yet

KenTX325

So 4 allies? Shame it isn’t more, he has lots of choices. If sword saint and Sylphie are now chosen they make the list. Now it’s a choice between Carmen, Vesperia, Draskil, maybe Scarlet or others from Order, Arnold, and green Forrest king. Carmen and Vesperia may have other obligations. Draskil is not that smart and that may be an issue for an administrator. You also want a team similar to a dungeon team, so maybe a support person.

brjenness

Sandie probably didn't get a candidate spot...or jasper.

Misa

Tftc

brjenness

Jake runs into a freaked out irin who has been contacted by a bunch of factions wanting to send a superstar with jake.

Anomander_Rake

He’s going to be able to take one step and reach the horizons edge before long the way he keeps upgrading these boots!

brjenness

Big bird will convince sylphie to bring wintermaul.

Morgan Loman

I want to see the Nevermore team reform for this event, if the sword saint isn't an administrator on his own

Fervent Fiend

I almost wish he went to pick up a Vampire from that one clan he’s favourable with. The mind ones that have a chapter at the order… can’t remember their name though.

Josie

Can you imagine how much Duskleaf is grumbling right now that Jake was at the Order for a year doing alchemy while Duskleaf was stuck in the PoL? Pretty sure Duskleaf's seedclone-thing would have chaperoned Meira to PoL, so he couldn't send that to harass Jake either I was expecting Jake to unlock more uses for his soulflame before this event or, you know, MEDITATE lol

RedFaux

I smell a conflict with the Forest King for that seat

KenTX325

Jake needs to swing by the loot tower and upgrade gloves first. Maybe upgrade necklace and rings. Arnold is working on armor and second Katar.

Nebulous

She didn’t even have time to finish her sentence as she, too, fell silent, likely reached out to b(y) her colleagues at the Pantheon of Life.

C0bra$

Thank u for the story

brjenness

Villy will make sure Jake coordinates with his friends to ensure they bring an appropriate mix of muscle and brains. I wonder if villy will have to suggest to Jake that he hires Valhalla key players and umbra followers before someone else does?

Alexander C Hyde

In fact, Jake noticed that the entire high-end restaurant had suddenly grown incredibly still, with everyone stopping (their eating)to eat.

Alexander C Hyde

With those words, she teleported away, and not long after, Jake returned to his own residence, where he sto(c)ked up on a few items before heading back to Earth.

brjenness

She is an ally and Jake considers her kin. He's from alabama.

brjenness

I'm hoping g Jake can assist others to upgrade to administrator.

Simon Andriessen

Most Unique lifeforms can gain normal skills just fine (Minaga is an exception, not the rule), so I'd assume they can also acquire bloodline skills from system events.

Jeroen Turkstra

So I’m not super clear on this. The event starting in 10 days and ending 100 later, won’t be the one Jake can join right? Cuz he’s already a fully fledged admin. Then only once the chief selection is starting he can join? And by that time we’ll get more info?

Josie

Hey wait a second.. didn't a certain flamingo tell Jake they needed to strategize about all this before he left the Order? 😭

Grond (James)

Why would his Spirit of Man skill affect Artemis? She is a wood elf.

UNKNOWN

Is it possible for Unique lifeforms to be born with, or gain bloodlines? Was that ever confirmed or denied?

Ser

Yeah that’s what it said “or even full-on Administrators. Such as Jake”

GeneticSloth

tftc!

brjenness

Someone mentioned bowbow yesterday, but I'm hoping it just upgrades with Jake. No token needed.

brjenness

How dare you suggest the chosen should pay? Blasphemy. Off with your head!

Andrei

Wait, Jake is an Administrator not an administrator candidate, no?

brjenness

That makes me think of the guy from breaking bad. Jake puts on his boots and says, "tight. Tight. Pink, blue, orange, these boots are the shit." And then continues to have an over excited reaction to every item he chooses.

IntenseSushi

Tftc can’t wait to slay some dragons

Arieh Sochaczevski

Thanks for the chapter!

JJB4345_80_815

Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!

Andrei

Upgrade for the boots?

brjenness

Would anywhere be safer than with Jake? He'll attract the most heat, but he'll have a lot of big players not going after him.

Matthias

Tftc

brjenness

Tagalongs: Miranda(if she isn't Qual on her own) Any of his friends if they aren't already going..Draskil/holy ducking shit demon prince(prob going with someone from his faction) Sky whale to boost his records and show that Jake plays nice with beasts he's not hunting. Jacob just to mess with the church. I'd send an invite to dragon princess just to show I'm not a dragon hater. My luck she'd take it as an insult to her flight but accept to screw me over. Weird monk girl who changes fate when she speaks because she messed up Jake's karma when she said, "I'll be back..." no that wasn't it. " let us meet again." So to end the list Jake could go super team, political strategy team, or key earth ally boosting team.

Vega

It’s time!!

Saleh Alhasan

Jake you lucky bastard, I wish to be able to play for a year without my wife calling me out for not spending time with her lol

Raymond Lenihan

Jake mentioned how every table had their own privacy shield, it was only his sphere that allowed him to see others

brjenness

Did Jake and Artemis officially announce anything? She just kissed him in public.

Admiral Dakbar

I’m hoping Jake takes Sylphie, Golden Forrest king, sword saint and maybe Vesperia? We’ve found out just how OP vespy can be so she would be a good team mate. Her faction might be a bit nervous to let her go though

Rewdan

Thanks Zogarth this has me hyped up. I’m looking forward to reading what’s coming next.

Rewdan

Wow I’m in, so what is this scheme?

brjenness

"Everyone stopping to eat" might not be exactly what was meant. Perhaps, "everyone stopped eating"

Jordan Rogers

I’m hoping Dina gets a spritz of magic fertilizer and gets to b grade and goes too!!

Tilen Praprotnik

Thanks for the chapter

Borbino the great

Pretty much😂

Borbino the great

He’s closed a lot of the gaps for demerits when he’s fighting with other people especially with his spirit of man skill so I don’t think it’ll be a huge deal I’m really excited to see what kind of esoteric and weird opponents zog comes up with

Borbino the great

I think these are some pretty solid guesses

Xander

TFTC :) Suggested edits: Ch. 1287 "*Not* getting any information from his use of Identify was also an expression of Jake *not* lacking sufficient understanding" Spotted this yesterday but apparently forgot to add it to the list. The triple negative, Not not lacking, screws the meaning of the sentence. Ditch the second "not" Ch. 1288 "instead focus on improving other aspects *of itself*." weird use of "itself" Should be "of the item" or reword to "and focus on improving other aspects instead" "it would only begin after a certain number of people who had qualified to become Administrator Candidates or even full-on Administrators **." You missed the word "evolved" from the end "that didn’t mean there weren’t many candidates to claim the galaxy’s Seat of the Exalted Prima who wanted it. " Clunky phrasing. Perhaps "that didnt mean each galaxy lacked candidates who wanted to claim the associated Seat." "Pantheon of Life wasn’t free from such *external* strife either." should be "internal" since you were speaking of tension within factions. "he wasn’t in a rush to upgrade *it*, " should be "them" since he has two boots "Artemis also looked like she received *several constant* updates," Pick one. having both doesnt really work. "there are many *monsters out there and people* with methods you’re not used to" should be "monsters and people out there" since the monsters and people have methods jake is not used to, right? "he *stoked* up on a few items" should be "stocked"

brjenness

This entire book is a scheme by the viper to ensure that he keeps his promise to make sure the first sage is remembered. Now the real question...what was the first sage's scheme behind making villy promise that.

Kt-x

Aww so short! Gonna get more interesting though! Thanks for the chapter 🙂

Meir Banon

Tftc

Michael mann

Woop woop new system event arc! Time for Earth to show why they have multiple primordial chosens

Malo Thomas

Tftc

Shandlar

I want to see Sword Saint rematch actually. The event seems perfectly tailored for it to happen now.

Shandlar

King probably lost his candidate status when he half died, so Sword Saint should definitely take him as one of his four to the first event to upgrade SS to full administrator. Dina is probably not gonna go though, she has to plant herself for decades to level up and there hasn't been enough time for her I don't think.

Matthew Smith

Eron is part of a different faction though. I agree with the other 3 but im not sure on the 4th. My idea was Vesperia but even that doesn't sound quite right.

Shandlar

Mythical token capped at under level 400 essentially confirms there's almost certainly not just one, but probably two skill tiers above mythical but below divine at level 1000. Wonder what the names will be. Like class prefixes maybe? Villy seemed impressed he was offered exalted champion. Maybe exalted is next above mythical and then something like "ascended" before divine

Justin Lucier

where he stoked up on a few items stocked Thanks for the chappy!

Hayden Leech

Never more party reunion! Minus Dina

NovaZero

I'm actually hoping this event spanks Jake for not committing to his previous resolution of getting that Hunting Party skill for no other reason to combine it with his current set which basically only works if he's alone. Like cool, but also that's pretty dumb as far as limitations go and would have been interesting to overcome

Jordan Rogers

Ok so team up chapter then cliff

Unwillingmainer

And here we go, the next event is about to start. And from the sounds of it, it will be intense.

Gary Kamikawa

“Stocked up” not stoked. Though I am very stoked for the Prima event.

Paulo Furlaneto

New arc Begin, lets fucking go

BumAssBumAss

Jake can bring 4 people. The candidates are the golden forest king, sword saint, eron, slyphie, and maybe Arnold but probably not. Assuming everyone is also going with their own faction it knocks out eron and Arnold. Aeon might also have a different party for sword saint now that he is a chosen.

ShadeDweller9578

Tyftc

Patryk

GUYS IT'S HAPPENING!!

Karim Saadi

Let's go! Op squad assemble. I assume, Jake is quite high level enough to take anyone with him thanks to Spirit of Man. Definitely sylphie and sword saint and King again ? One spot open for maybe Carmen or a jacket a healer of some kind... Maybe we'll just get our nevermore party together?

TheDwiin

TYFTC! also: should be "stocked" in the last paragraph, not "stoked"

Timothy Spradlin

Hmmm, tic tic tic, predictions on final members riding the seat? Mine is Jake, lupis, golden dragon girl, and Eastbound Monk. I will also make a prediction that the Eastbound monk will give up during some big fight

Mitha

I want to get the old nevermore gang together again

GeneralBlack

Boots! boots! Now how many upgrade tokens does this makes?

mitchell kaiser

Ooooo Can’t wait, too bad we couldn’t see Irin or Mira before he left, we haven’t seen them in awhile.

Hmmm... okay

More arty noooo I neeedddd

Gregory Feddema

Tftc

joel southard

Thank you for the chapter

djthomp

Nice token for the boots. Shame the Artemis time only lasted for a few days but they'll have eternity together and gods have plenty of time and patience. System event time, let's see if anyone in the Milky Way is willing to try and challenge Jake. I wonder if we have any interesting monsters out there.

Titaniumtac

tftc btw

Fdrugc

Did they pay for the meal? This is going to be a incredible arc

Titaniumtac

such external strife ----> internal strife. though I may misunderstand as it is super early, pantheon of life dealing with the holy church would be external and dealing with members in itself should be internal