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Chapter 1217 - Depths of the Unknown
🕑 Added 2025-09-26 11:16:23 +0000 UTCFollowing the one thousand people who had participated in Jake’s lesson within his Order proved more interesting than Vilas had first expected. Initially, he had only looked for any suspicious activity, but it had inadvertently turned into a study of the effects of Jake-exposure.
It was entirely expected that even if there was something suspicious among the students, they wouldn’t have done anything overt quite yet. Even if they didn’t know they were being tracked, there had still been a lot of focus on them following the lesson from various people. Some wanted to form closer relationships with them, while others simply wanted to know if Jake was planning to have more lessons in the future.
Especially one rumor sparked a lot of intrigue, as some began to wonder if perhaps the Chosen was looking to take in a disciple. It wasn’t uncommon for those who reached peak C-grade and B-grade to start taking on people, especially not humans, as passing down Records was a core part of their Path.
Vilas gladly spread these rumors through subtle channels, as it provided a good cover for more overt surveillance, given that most would assume all intrigue was due to the lesson. To clarify, the Viper wasn’t involved with starting the rumor, which had come from Jake’s final words, making the rounds, where he talked about perhaps meeting some of the people there again.
A lot – perhaps overly optimistically – interpreted this as meaning that Jake planned on approaching someone who attended the lesson. Of course, the Viper knew that wasn’t the case, but it was still a fun rumor that he very much enjoyed the fallout of.
As a bonus, Jake wasn’t affected in the slightest as he hadn’t even left his residence for years. He was far too busy working on his Dragonsbane Poison to bother even thinking about taking on a student. In truth, even if he wanted to take someone on, the Viper doubted he was entirely ready to do so. At least Vilas would like to vet the disciple in question and make sure they were someone Jake’s very free-range teaching style suited.
One of the unintended effects of this increased attention on all the students was that knowledge surrounding Jake’s Bloodline began to spread. It was already known that he had a unique presence and that this presence could affect others to some extent, but now those interested had just been given a sample size of a thousand who had experienced his presence in a relatively intimate environment.
While the effect Jake’s aura had on these students was nothing compared to those who spent a lot of time around him, it was still noticeable. Sure, they weren’t all suddenly borderline immune to the presence of gods, but they could now far more easily handle being around those in their same grade who were stronger, and even showed signs of increased resistance towards those at higher grades, though it was far more subtle.
Watching these results, Vilas couldn’t help but consider whether he should have his Chosen participate in semi-regular lessons that just involved him flaring his aura and allowing the students to build resistance. It would do the Order good and help elevate many of the more talented students, but the Viper also knew convincing Jake wouldn’t be easy.
Additionally, there were still some uncertainties about whether Jake would experience any negative effects from providing this resistance training. Not to those affected, but to Jake himself.
While it stemmed from his Bloodline, what Jake essentially formed were Records within all those present whenever he allowed them to experience his presence. While it was entirely possible that Jake didn’t actually impart those Records, but simply stimulated those present to form these Records themselves, no one knew quite yet.
What’s more, Jake didn’t exactly make it easy to find out.
Seeing how exhausted Jake was after giving the lesson, the Viper’s initial reaction was that there was some out-of-the-ordinary impartation of Records, as Jake was unrealistically tired, considering his near-peak C-grade state. Yet after a short rest, he was pretty much back in peak condition, something that didn’t correlate with having imparted too many Records, as recovering from something like that tended to be a long and arduous process.
This forced the Viper to consider that it was also entirely possible that Jake had actually managed to drain himself of mental energy in just a few hours, all from doing a relatively simple lesson in front of a few D-grades. The notion that it took so much out of his Chosen to socialize did feel a little embarrassing, but the more he considered every factor, the more likely it seemed to be the case.
Ultimately, even if it proved itself to be one-hundred percent risk-free for Jake to perform presence-training sessions, the Viper still wouldn’t force him to. This time around had been an exception, but generally, he preferred to just let Jake do as he wanted.
Not that the Viper felt like he had any reason to feel sorry for his dear Chosen, who had been burning through high-level alchemical ingredients at a stupid rate, gladly taking full advantage of his poor Patron.
However, at least the investment did not seem to be entirely a waste, as the Viper watched Jake finally complete his first batch of Weak Dragonsbane Poison. For a bane poison, it was still pretty bad, but as a poison in general, it was impeccable, especially when factoring in that it came from a C-grade. Jake had also chosen a good design for how the poison itself would work, targeting the mana of the True Dragon he would eventually hunt.
Speaking of his would-be target, finding one had proven to be quite a challenge. Unsurprisingly, the Dragonflights didn’t have an army of potential prey just sitting around waiting to be hunted down, but remained incredibly protective of their kin. Sure, if the Viper came to them and asked personally, he could probably make them force a True Dragon to act as the villain, but Vilas knew that wasn’t what Jake wanted.
No, he wanted a True Dragon that was genuinely an asshole and someone he would be willing to hunt down even if they weren’t a True Dragon. Finding such a True Dragon while also making sure they weren’t too powerful or even too weak had taken more than three years, so far, and while a few candidates had been found, not one of them had struck the Viper as perfect quite yet. Oh, and those he did find acceptable often hit a snag of some kind.
There was one from the Darkflight that had killed his still-maturing C-grade little brother before he could grow into a True Dragon due to his own insecurities. This dragon was weak and knew his brother would be superior, so to retain his parents’ favor, he killed his brother before he could evolve. An action that had naturally backfired, especially after the dragon also killed several other whelplings in an attempt to cover up his actions. The entire scenario ultimately resulted in the dragon being arrested, but before Vilas could even finish evaluating whether this dragon would be a good target, the mother of another slain whelp killed him.
Another potential target was a True Dragon from the Emberflight who was a bit too keen on fire and loved setting things ablaze even when he shouldn’t. The Emberflight didn’t step in for a while despite the widespread destruction of the dragon, but when they did, they found him in an odd state where he attacked everything on sight, seeking only to burn anything that could move. After being easily restrained, the other dragons found they couldn’t dispel this effect and feared it was self-inflicted, leaving them clueless about how to help.
On the surface, this appeared to be good prey. It was a berserk dragon that needed to be put down, yet the Emberflight themselves weren’t comfortable killing. So they needed someone to step in and get the job done. Perfect, right?
Except the Viper passed this one for a reason Jake would surely appreciate: the True Dragon was too weak.
From the Viper’s investigation, the dragon had lost all sense and was just a bundle of instinctual destruction. While the raw magical prowess of a True Dragon was enough to make it incredibly dangerous, this lack of control and thought made it far weaker. Even the Wildflight, who were all about making their bodies as powerful as possible, stayed away from skills that affected their minds negatively. Active control of mana and magic was incredibly important, and for Jake to face a dragon without just a crucial thing… yeah, he probably wouldn’t even feel like he’d fought a genuine True Dragon even if he won. Due to that, the Viper looked elsewhere, keeping his standards incredibly high.
Time passed as Jake continued to improve his bane poison, spending longer and longer periods in meditation, working on that upgrade. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Vilas cared far more about that one than his bane poison crafting. However, he tried not to think about it too much so he could be pleasantly surprised whenever Jake finally found success.
If Jake realized the true purpose of Meditate as a mere C-grade… now that would certainly be something. The Viper wasn’t even sure such a thing was possible, as he’d never heard about it happening before, which only made the prospect more exciting.
While continuing to watch Jake and tend to his own projects, the Viper kept getting reports about True Dragons, but discarded most as they didn’t fit the criteria he’d decided on. However, as he looked through the reports that day, one of them stood out as he raised an eyebrow.
The Lumenflight, huh?
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Jake floated in the air, the large tome left by the First Sage suspended in the air in front of him. He reread sections of it repeatedly, allowing the knowledge within to freely pass through his mind and manifest into his Soulspace as odd shapes and images surrounded him on all sides.
He felt as if he’d read everything available in the tome thrice over, yet some aspects of it still didn’t feel entirely right. Jake was one hundred percent confident in some things, but other aspects somehow still eluded him despite seemingly being just within reach.
What Jake did know for certain was that the core of the Meditate skill was all about deepening one’s connection with one’s inner Truesoul to hasten regeneration of resources. This was the core aspect of the skill and the reason why Meditate was considered the best recuperation skill in the multiverse.
The only thing that rivaled and even surpassed it in places was the act of sleeping. In fact, over the last couple of years, Jake had come to believe that this wasn’t a mere coincidence.
No matter how talented the First Sage was, he still needed inspiration from somewhere, and as a human born before the system, he naturally had to sleep for the majority of his life. After the system, the Viper’s teacher would no doubt have noticed the incredibly regenerative effects of sleeping.
While there was still some uncertainty, Jake suspected that at least part of the Meditate skill was founded on the concept of sleeping. Before the system, sleeping was a necessary bodily process that regulated and performed a whole slew of functions that Jake was far from educated enough to understand, much less explain. All he knew was that pretty much all living things had to sleep, and if they didn’t, well, they would have a very bad time.
With the system, sleep stopped being a necessity, yet it remained an ability that those who knew how to sleep retained. Jake knew that someone like the Forest King or even Vesperia wasn’t capable of sleeping, and while some rare creatures learned to do it through a lot of struggles, chances were those two would never learn how to.
Jake had wondered for a while why the system even allowed people who grew out of needing sleep to retain what became a borderline overpowered ability, but after some thought and inspiration from the tome, Jake came to understand why… and kind of how meditate and both sleep were even allowed to work in the first place.
One thing that had bothered Jake was why Meditate worked. All active skills Jake had, even something like Identify, required some kind of resource to use. It had a kind of cost. Yet, Meditate appeared to be the sole exception, as it had the opposite effect of cost and instead accelerated regeneration.
But… that wasn’t entirely accurate, was it? Because Meditate did have a downside, just not one that people usually associated with being considered a cost. All Meditate skills, even the variants like the Sword Saint’s, required one to sacrifice something while using the skill:
One’s senses.
What Jake had come to realize was that Meditate ingeniously redistributed parts of one’s soul by taking away from the aspects allowing external perception and focusing them on the aspects of the Truesoul that allowed passive resource regeneration, thus speeding it up. All done by the system in a fashion that was naturally obscured by the very action of using the skill in the first place.
When sleeping, one took this concept a step further by even cutting off one’s own consciousness. One paid with no longer being awake and was rewarded with the ability to regenerate faster, and meditating was essentially a middle ground between being fast asleep and wide awake.
Jake couldn’t outright confirm his theory, but he was extremely confident that this was the case, and the knowledge provided by the First Sage’s tome backed him up. With what he knew now, Jake was confident he could create a far more powerful version of his current Meditate skill simply by amplifying this aspect, because there was one thing that set Meditate apart from sleeping:
It was a skill provided by the system.
Sleeping was not a skill. Sleep skills did exist, such as Vampiric Slumber, one that some vampires used to stay alive for longer and effectively put themselves in stasis, which nicely proved Jake’s point that they could clearly do more than just regular sleep.
When something became a skill, it meant that the system directly stepped in and provided assistance, allowing one to earn even greater rewards at the same cost. Jake’s Serene Soul Meditation had the system help Jake calm his mind while meditating. Perhaps there was some minor cost in slightly reduced regeneration, but whatever the cost, Jake knew he wasn’t paying full price.
If all Jake wanted was to make a super meditation skill that allowed him to regenerate resources far faster and even amplify the soul-enhancing effects to allow the skill to passive heal his soul, he could do it right now. However, he was far from satisfied with this but wanted something more.
Going by the Legacy of the First Sage, Jake also knew there was more. A deeper meaning to the Meditate skill that Jake had yet to realize. One that went beyond merely enhancing regeneration… perhaps even beyond his own soul and Truesoul.
That day, with Jake floating in his Soulspace, he felt that he was closer than ever. He felt as if he channeled the Records of the tome through himself and that he understood more than usual. Perhaps it was his own delusion speaking from having spent too long going over the same things repeatedly, but he remained determined.
Closing his eyes within his Soulspace, Jake focused on the sensation of meditating and the faint stream of Records from the tome being channeled through his soul. His breathing calmed, and in the outside world, Jake’s body relaxed more and more.
He tried to delve as deep into the Meditate skill as possible, trying to cut off everything and connect with the skill to fully understand every aspect of it, and as he did… he felt something. Realized something. His instinct took over, and he jumped at it, all hesitation gone. With this epiphany, something finally seemed to click into place.
The Tome of the First Sage responded, giving off a subtle glow as the pages within lifted themselves up before tearing off and turning into streams of pure Records that entered Jake, who couldn’t even feel what was happening. In fact, he couldn’t feel much of anything anymore.
His perception of his own Soulspace had completely faded. He’d retracted his sphere to nothingness. Stopped feeling his own body. Severed everything he could to seek as deeply into himself as possible.
Soon, the only sign he was even alive was his stable breathing. When that stopped, Jake sat in complete stillness. His mind was empty, his senses gone, and even his Bloodline was silenced, seeking toward the depths with him. He had entered a state far more profound than any meditation he’d ever heard of. Gone deeper than the deepest sleep. What was left of Jake’s existence sought toward his Truesoul, what was commonly believed to be the deepest core of one’s being… and through that, one layer further down. To somewhere perhaps no C-grade had ever gone before, with Jake’s only guide being his subconscious instincts born of his Bloodline and the Records of the First Sage.
Comments
DeAndrea H
Jake having stamina for days for physical fighting but needing an intense nap after a couple hours of forced socializing cracks me up to no end.
Alexander C Hyde
Active control of mana and magic was incredibly important, and for Jake to face a dragon without (such)just a crucial thing… yeah, he probably wouldn’t even feel like he’d fought a genuine True Dragon even if he won.
Chloe
Again Jake is a powerhouse. Guy can almost sleep, better than anyone. Err "meditate" ... Tyftc
Michael Click
❤️❤️❤️
JJB4345_80_815
Thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
Max
faxs, i had to leave a comment on the website for the team working on it, the new season is way better in every way than the 1 st manga season
Shadowind
Tftc
Korrasis
For those of you that haven't read the Manga. It's second season is top notch. You should give it a second try.
beeve
I sure hope not
Zogarth
Fix
Xerecs
So for tomorrow do we expect a chapter where Zog reveals the meditate upgrade or will Zog drag out the wait and give us a side chapter from another character's pov? XD
Keion
I’ve cracked the code I think Jake’s bloodline is werewolf lol natural enemy of vampires hahaha class lumen hunter palate upgraded to gluttony
Flydogfly55
I hope some how his meditation some how is divine raked or Is a Transcendent skill considering how long he went with it... now just favr wait until Monday to properly know🤔
DaMule
😲 I like the thought it might be about his own divine realm
WhiteLeeopard
Since the Viper wants resistance training for the Order and Jake doesn't want to give classes a simple compromise both would be happy is to just have set days when Jake extends his bloodline in an auditorium for a few hours while doing something else. People would love to attend even if he says nothing.
Psyck0
Maybe celestial to represent the peak of a galaxy while myths represent a planet Then legend to continent etc.
MrBooniecap
It’s Saturday, why do you make me sad about it being Saturday.🥹
Fdrugc
Tftc Edit suggestions Active control of mana and magic was incredibly important, and for Jake to face a dragon without just a crucial thing… yeah, he probably wouldn’t even feel like he’d fought a genuine True Dragon even if he won. Due to that, the Viper looked elsewhere, keeping his standards incredibly high. Should be Active control of mana and magic was incredibly important, and for Jake to face a dragon without such a crucial thing… yeah, he probably wouldn’t even feel like he’d fought a genuine True Dragon even if he won. Due to that, the Viper looked elsewhere, keeping his standards incredibly high.
Alexandre8901
Wow
itsdlow
I totally agree! Divine Realms and True souls are linked. To me, going deeper than that could only mean diving into his own records. Cannot wait for Mondays chapter!
Georgia Guy-Williams
Nah that one was mouldy...
Mikesch
This feels almost like being a kid again, shortly before Christmas. Loving those Cliffs so much
Mikesch
I dont think he will create a devine realm. The Soulspace made reality is a devine realm as I understand. Maybe he will be able to see the System and learn that gods are meditating to try and learn from the System? Like deciphering the basic code? No idea, but what I am sure of is that we will finally learn if there is a rarity between mythical and devine!
Thomas
Great chapter!!!
Orgack20
Goddamn. The lore and worldbuilding are just too good. Can’t wait for Monday.
Annelise Kolp
Here I was wishing I could pay to read ahead, only to realize I already have
Jeryd Greer
He’s creating his truerealm. He’s taking a very early step into the early stages godhood. Funky
Walter Kimberly
Honestly Zogarth you are one hell of a writer. No matter what chapter you shell out at the end of the week it will be a cliffhanger. I do have to admit you have truly killed me this week tho 👍
Roy Boy Meyer
What if he finds out that everything is connected through meditation and that his whole perception would fundamentally upgrade. His observation sphere from his bloodline is to much now cause he can't proces all the info with his mind rn. But with the meditation revelation he will be able to handle all the noise and unlock the true perception powers of his bloodline. True perception
Josh Strange
Yeah, this is what FS said would solve his Palate and Soul Damage... If he does it correctly.
AfroMocha
also, I was thinking with Jake‘s new cloak if he uses the ability where he can go into the shadow realm. Then in theory, unless the skills won’t work together, he could use his eternal shadow skill and have one of his elves jump into the shadow ground have the eternal shadow copy, die, and maybe leave enough records behind that they’d get some sort of notification. Probably won’t be able to do it at B grade, but maybe closer to a grade or above a grade
Dragon
Maybe even a a day or two into the new week. Zog likes to make us sweat
AfroMocha
Holy Villy. Jake is gonna learn to make an avatar... I'm calling it now!
Sergej Fel
Not all gods need to have faithful followers, but all gods need the skill to meditate and control their soulspace.
Fyrtue
IIRC it wasn't that long in story. I think they did one when he was wrapping up the pantheon of life arc.
Spencer Miller
Assuming the thoughts in this chapter inspire the realization, maybe it was “where in the soul does system assistance emerge?” If the connection to a Bloodline and any assistance it offers lies in the Truesoul, maybe there is a fundamental connection to the System there, too. One which provides skill-based assistance. Perhaps it is the same channel through which mana, stamina, and health, as energies, emerge from, too. This would explain why the skill that widens the passage for them can also widen the passage for… something else? Being able to exert control over System Assistance would be a huge boon, as seen in the Colosseum of Mortals. Perhaps not increasing the amount, but merely being able to supress or carefully examine parts of the assistance would be helpful in understanding and advancing Skills. Far more speculatively, Bloodlines could be parts of the Truesoul that don’t require this connection to the system to get some types of assistance, and Transcendences could either be forced-open connections or pushing your own Concepts into the System itself through the connection.
Adam
When's the last time we got a proper stat sheet with all of Jake's current skills and everything? I was just rereading the tutorial and I'm wondering just how big that gap is.
micah Hogan
I have to wait for the weekend to be over before I can find out what this upgrade is gonna do?. What do you mean??!!
Jan Backhaus
These are the chapters i live for!!! Such insane writing-skills!!! I love this story.
MrBooniecap
Oh alchemist and ritualist, did I miss anything?
MrBooniecap
An archer, a ranger, and assassin, a mage, a beast tamer, and now he is a monk!
D
He created a clone/avatar. That would be a cool way of doing it. So that your always meditating really but send your avatar off Tod o things
Jeremiah Lambert
The emperyian steps? If there's something past them it would probably be something like the 10 circles of power but be called the 12 or 10 circles of heavenly or celestial power and then repeat with the heavenly god king or something close and then move to the endless accent of Heavenly/ celestial of the Emporer/emperyian. However I do believe that nothing goes beyond the endless emperyian steps already written. Given by the fact that the primordials have taken more than 10 steps...and possibly close to 100 steps. Given by how limited the primordials and other peak beings still seem so limited in the scope of their power while still being the forerunners of the multivers
JW Saxby
Ooo-this is gooooooood! Really wish it didn’t end there though dang it lol 😂 Tyftc! 🍻
Daniel Golding
Agreed. Meditate is how you form a divine realm
Daniel Golding
I think meditate is how you create a Divine Realm
Daniel Golding
Is this also how he'll fix Palate?
ItsFin
The First Sage talked about souls and divine ascension, implying the soul is the divine realm. So for godhood im guessing we need to be lvl 1000, some kind of soul mutation through meditating, and to prove to the system that youre stong enough to be just a permanent fixture in the multiverse, like a world wonder. Like how Aeon claimed a moment of time during his
Ty Cooper
I had a feeling it was going to be a cliffhanger. We haven't had to harsh of cliffs lately so this one has to be making up for it right. Man Monday is so far away. Looking forward to it. I am guessing the absorption and processing of one's own records is what he unlocked. He has a skill close to what gods do in their Devine realms to use the records they receive from their blessed.
Edgar Rolon Rolon
On paragraph 18 , second sentence, “Finding such a True Dragon while also making sure they weren’t too power or even too weak had taken more than three years,” You wrote power , instead of powerful , was that on purpose ?
Koby
I wonder if we are about to find out what is beyond mythical tier?! Surely not a straight Divine skill, that would be insane but the other comments on a nascent divine realm make sense to me.
Xander
TFTC :) Suggested edits: "what Jake essentially formed ** Records within all those present whenever he allowed them to experience his presence." missing word "were" "weren’t too *power* or " should be "powerful" "somehow still eluded him despite seemingly being *just out of reach*." from context should be "within reach" since you used "despite" before it otherwise this is repetition. "Eluded him" and "out of reach" are too similar. "out of the *having* to sleep to retain what" should be "requirement" "did have a cost, *just not one that people usually didn’t associate with being considered a cost.*" the whole end of this sentence is really poorly worded with the double negative. It should be something more along the lines of "a cost that, in other circumstances, people would usually try hard to avoid" "of the tome through *him* and that he" should be "himself"
joel southard
Thank you for the chapter
NovaZero
We just got Edged. Zog the Edge Lord is back!
Joseph Farris
I’m still curious what comes after the empherial steps
Joseph Jenkins
So meditate focuses on the power of the Origin to regenerate?
brjenness
nope. devil dude doesn't like that. he is obviously a genius writer with millions in revenue from book sales.
Robert Phipps Jr (Perren d'Wolff)
And the court of Shadows as well.
AfroMocha
Fucking Christ that is. It the cliffhanger I wanted lol.
Exaiter
Holy crap fuck, what kind of insane shit will he unlock? Awesome chap!
Lemonsqueezy
I have had the same hypothesis. The boots Jake wears that came from the sage, and how every god has a karmic link to them, definitely points in that direction. Maybe not a direct reincarnation, but a passing down of the core of what the First Sage is. My ultimate, and probably very unlikely possibility, is that Jake will somehow become the heir of the system itself. I think the sage might have directly merged with the system, and ultimately Jake will do the same. In the sense where the system picks a person every integration to become part of it and helps guide or influence the system on how it operates. There have been chapters where the Primordials have stated that in each iteration of an integration of a new universe the System changes how it operates. This could be machine learning, if the System is some sort of machine, but AI tends to find a way that works and sticks with it, or only makes minor adjustments. What is described in this story is that the system seems to change a lot of things in each integration. This makes me believe that the System is perhaps something sentient. Maybe the first true god that created all of this. When the integration starts, or even when the new universe is created (possibly by this System) a person is chosen (maybe at random, maybe by design) and that person is guided like a pupil or child to become the next advisor to the system itself. Think of the Christian faith of God and Jesus except less torture and crucifixion.
Exaiter
He used to do resistance training for the old man's clan back on earth, was no biggie for him then
Jacob Piccard
So many armchair editors in here. Smh. Loved the chapter thank you
Anthony Smith
Horizon scales based off the strength of soul. Curious if this meditation will have additional strengthening effects.
Jason
I'm guessing he's about to enter his nascent Divine Realm (which is also Forbidden Knowledge, so only those who have discovered it themselves can discuss it).
Lemonsqueezy
It is par for the course with Zog. At this point it is almost a disappointment when there isnt a Friday cliffhanger.
Russell Widger
I doubt loss of control is permanent, it also doesnt sound like he lost control but willingly went deeper
brjenness
eyes fill the void. oras asks, "weird name i can't remember, you have awakened? avatars of the other primals appear to investigate. valdemar looks around and says, oh, a fight. let me in on this.
Jordan
This….makes a lot of sense to me. Could see this being pretty close
Prospects
Typical, a Friday without a cliffhanger just wouldn’t be the same. The theory on it being an infant divine realm is interesting, but if that theory has some element of truth to it then Jake will probably see the divine mark of the chosen, it’s a part of the true blessing that only gods can see but we haven’t gotten more of an explanation yet. TYFTC Zog!
Hornbach
So you could say he is going to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes?
Justin Moen
Bro. For real. Friday cliff hanger?? Come on..
DeAndrea H
Random Wild Ass Guess: Jake is the system’s reincarnation of the First Sage.
A Flashy BR
Damnn Cliffhanger!! ...tyftc :(
Sogala
Thanks for the chapter and a relaxing weekend to everyone
brjenness
vespy rushes out of the hive on her inner world, alerted by her guards that a new world had formed nearby. staring at it, she senses a familiarity to it. her sire. he's created a new true royal. excited to meet her new sister, she and her royal guard fly off. as they approach the inner world of the new true royal, she is confused by its purple sky. and there are beasts spread out in jungles and forests and plains. however, the feel of her sire pushes her forward. Jake feels an intruder. someone has invaded his soul. alerting villy, they enter. vespy? what are you doing here. sire, what is this place. villy roars off into space and meets unknown gods in battle. the mysterious faction has found Jake's inner world. unfortunately for them, he has a guest.
Thalamus Dredge
I think the true purpose of meditate is to let you directly inspect your own records. We know records are stored inside the truesoul and he just began to delve into "something" a layer deeper inside his truesoul. That would make complete sense since the First Sage was obsessed with the system and figuring out how it worked. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he is the reason they are called "records" if his skill is what allows people to actually investigate them and "read" their own records. I always found it strange that everyone in the multiverse is absolutely certain about what records are and their affect on one's path so there always had to be a way to inspect your records but we haven't encountered it yet. The First Sage, who loves gaming the system, left behind a skill that if upgraded correctly provides you direct access to your own source code. He gave everyone in the multiverse a game genie.
Cody
“Finding such a True Dragon while also making sure they weren’t too power or even too weak had taken more than three years,” Power -> powerful TYFTC Zogarth! Can’t wait for next week.
ByLordMatsLuck
Got to love those Friday cliffhangers. Have a good weekend everyone
Spencer Wilson
fantastic chapter sir zogarth
Carl Never
I think your right. And "safe mode" where you can work on individual parts at a time by turning off everything else. Palate needs fixed? Make that the whole world and use that perception to learn about it.
Devillelouch
Also In case people thought this was too negative, the second part of the chapter is great.
Lynderyn
Will Jake become the second C grade (or lower) to start working on his divine realm?
ABTelford
I enjoyed the chapter, thanks! The end of your first week back from your vacation and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks!
brjenness
2nd worst cliff yeet behind ... molt?
NerdyFellow
How the hell is he going to wake up that skill sounds existentially terrifying like a total loss of control of your own mind
Jonathan R
Tftc! My theory on the real use of meditation is that it serves as the foundation for one’s divine realm, hence why a C grade figuring that out would be so important.
Austin Barton
No shot this is his infant divine realm
Meir Banon
Tftc
Devillelouch
*Massages Temples* Begrudginly I am typing this out because I would like the book be better for when I listen to it while driving later. And why this problem exists would not happen to the author or people reading while knowing future details. The Villy part of this chapter really should be after 1212 except it cannot because of the dragon searching part. Either this part is from the future(if after 1212) or the past(if left as 1217). Here is the problem(if you experienced this please be vocal because we are some of the first blind readers before the general audience): Timeline: So you enter the teaching arc at ch 1209. 1210 gives you the purpose of the arc. Reveal who was in the void. 1214 then summarizes the teaching mini arc as: "Nope, no reveal". Which the reader knows is not an actual twist because you spoiled the twist in 1210. And then gives the teaching mini arc closure. 1217 You come back to the teaching arc and give it a better ending than 1214. Problem(s): 1215 and 1216, You are stuck with the feeling of "When will you actually give me the reveal or closure on the teaching mini arc? Will it be 3, 10, or 100 chapters?". Which in my opinion is not a good feeling. You are stuck with two characters Vendoli and Chalette that seem disposable but the blind reader has to try to remember them for "3, 10, or 100 chapters". And I just get the feeling they will have to get re-introduced during the reveal because everyone forgot who they are. Solution(s): 1. Move the Viper part in 1217 to after 1212. It fixes the problem even if it doesnt read particularly well. Ideally the lesson and dragon part are split, but that is a tough ask. 2. Just have a Shadowy figure at the end of 1212 confirm, "Agent has confirmed that the Chosen is unharmed". It confirms one of the two characters is important and it removes the 1214 problem. 3/4. Would be Eversmile and/or Jake finding either Vendoli or Chalette having "odd karma" or giving "and odd feeling" respectively. You could argue 1213 does that, but I think it needs to be more explicit. I will reiterate, it is just an opinion and a blind readers persepctive. Which may help Zogarth as he or the proofreaders may be reading while knowing the reveal which avoids the dissonance problem. If you read this far, I wish I could post the Godfather meme because "Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In!" when it comes to this ordering issue. Go see 1214 and 1216 for me thinking I was out.
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter! Boo to this cliffhanger. I often enjoy Friday cliffs, but doubt I’ll enjoy this one. On a more technical note… Villy revealing the ideas concerning meditation should be at least a few chapters in advance of Jake’s discovering would build up the payoff in a more satisfying way.
Polaris
Monday we start the 450 chapter arc about Holstred’s journey in nevermore
John Durrett
I visualize the True Soul as the Spiritual Blueprint. The body is a copy or representation of those blueprint records.
tigerfishie
Tyftc, I’m banging my head into the wall while enduring the wait for Monday 😭😭
Andromeda Adams
Cliffhanger…. Something to look forward to. Thank you Zog.
Steven Myer
Listen Z, I'm down with flailing my arms on a Friday Cliff Hanger. Just don't do me dirty with a perspective change on Monday!
Danny
Ah man mean Cliffhanger ^^
KevB
Of course Vilas says Jake will never do something and Jake is already there. Vilas is going to freak
Patryk
Man, such a harsh cliffhanger. And one concerning the matters of sleep and regeneration, no less. Actually, if this was any other novel, we would probably be getting a generic in-depth rundown of all the Yrel's transgressions, but instead you've got us all on the edge of our seats by teasing everybody what happens when Jake uses 100% of his b̶r̶a̶i̶n̶ sleep power. PS: I was wondering if zogarth tried ever rock climbing, he seems pretty stellar at this cliff-hanging business lol
Preston bodenheimer
Sift
Justin Lucier
Jake out here unlocking DLC.
Adam Taylor
I'm wondering if it ties directly into the system and the Akashic Records, but that's probably due to me interpreting some things differently, and I can't explain it without typing out an essay 😭
Bloodshadow
I'm starting to dread Fridays zog... how can you do this to us
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
Morazain
They went to Jake land
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Steven Tuttle
honestly with such a huge cliff hanger i just hope he dont disappoint us with just the next level of mediate and he actully does figure out the truth of mediate and does that witch no mortal ever has again
Thenais
The first sage is chuck norris’ réincarnation
Abhishek
This skill is not a first for C grade cause the first sage did it. Since the first sage more like but still in a league of their own. I’m sure it’s some system connection. Imagine temporarily severing it is how u establish ur own realms lol
Jared Bell
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Nano
Meditate is definitely the link to divine realms
Fyrtue
My guess is that this realm further down than his soul core is that it's tied to divine ascension or whatever the first sage called it when he spoke of manifesting your soul space into the real world.
Zach Neumann
There's a joke in here somewhere about a Viper step master making to the deepest layer of meditation...True Sleep
C0bra$
Thank u for the story
David
Could it be that Jake gets some kind of C grade version of a divine realm? They've been mentioned to help with resource recovery and Jake's massive soulspace has already been compared to one before. Also imagine how crazy it would be for a mortal to have one lol
Paulo Furlaneto
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BuhDussy
Wooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww
DaMule
"If Jake realized the true purpose of mediate..." Tease me more Z 😉 TFTC
Samuel Nelson
Because Zogarth.
IntenseSushi
Tftc the cursed cliff!!
Mrburns93
He's about to do something incredibly profound or incredibly stupid and im excited to see which. It may be an ambitious theory but are we about to see a C grade divine realm?
Strato Junon
It's basically only true dragon, bane potion, meditation training. Everything else is on the back burner.
Tom C
Awesome stuff. TFTC!
Tyler S.
Insted of divine realm it feels like its a key to turning mortal records immortal
Trugath
Connection to the system perhaps? Some underlying interface to reality
Léon Geide
Dann that cliffhanger. I’m gonna suffer these next days
Kevin Hargett
Nice! Love me some exclusive content that only Jake can do! Tftc!
Matthias
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Luboš Hemala
As friday's chapters go, this one is impeccable. Can't wait till monday.
Rewdan
This is the way.
Tyler S.
This is the way
Kt-x
Oooooh! 😁 It's a good cliff for a Friday! Thanks for the chapter.
Rewdan
Yeah we’ll have to wait till Monday 😒
Rewdan
Monday is so very far away 😱
Boomer
The spark?
Numors
What a cliffhanger… can’t wait till Monday
Emmanuel Achaab
Friday cliffhangers. Look how he laughs at us lol. Zogs in top form.
Posiden 300
Why do I have to wait for the next part!!!
Chewbacchus
Interacting with your own akashic tome and playing with your own records, perhaps
John
That’s what I figured.
Salientmind
When the Friday cliffs do the, it will take him longer to walk us all to the top because it's that much taller.
John
Zogarth you bastard! You release a chapter like that on a goddamn Friday???? I now have to wait 3 days! 3 days to find out what happened. This is gonna bug me all weekend. Well I hope you are happy with yourself. Jerk. Tyftc…. Asshole….
NinjaDad
So much happening. Ty Zog!
Sammot
Cant be transcedant hes litteraly using his bloodline to get there, which makes it impossible since any tanscendent skill needs to be wholly seperate from anything his bloodline does.
RnR_ RnR
Well target acquired and jake is getting his ghandi on. Since ryel probably has a bounty on her by now, does this mean jakes about to be a bounty hunter?
djthomp
I'd been wondering if testing Jake's effect on the class might have been one of the unstated reasons for the lesson, so even though it was apparently unintentional on Villy's part it's nice to see that come up. Meditate (and presumably palete) time at last!
Nate
For that first one I'd like to suggest instead "What Jake essentially formed Records within all those present>> What Jake essentially did was form Records within all those present"
Kyler
What would be deeper than the soul? For one's self that is, if we embrace the universe, or multiverse possibilities then well what do yall think it is?
Inderpal Kooner
Right?! It HAD to be Friday today 😕
Inderpal Kooner
It's not uncommon (for humans in particular) to take disciples early. Part of the human paths is passing down records. The way Jake got Legacy of Man skills
Jordan Rogers
So meditate is meant for working on the true soul itself?
Thomas Kuhn
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Dhia
simple, typo
James Houghton
I'm betting that this is the precursor to a God's Divine Realm
Zizawah
I’m not sure of the meaning here as it’s ambiguous “It wasn’t uncommon for those who reached peak C-grade and B-grade to start taking on people, especially not humans, as passing down Records was a core part of their Path.” Passing down records is a core of c and b grades? Especially true for non-humans? Or that c and b grades want to take on non-humans as disciples specifically?
Ghast Renave
Thank you for the chapter!
Corvid
This weekend cliff is legitimately painful! Gah literary blue balls!
Namorat
A surprising amount of small errors, but the content is fire
Jason Hardman
TYFTC! Saw a few points that might need edits, so here's some suggestions: what Jake essentially formed Records within all those present -> essentially formed were Records making sure they weren’t too power or even too weak -> weren't too powerful and kind of how meditate and both sleep were even allowed to work in the first place. -> kind of how meditate and sleep both were Because Meditate did have a cost, just not one that people usually didn’t associate with being considered a cost. -> just one that people (removed the double negative)
Cory S.
Gonna make us wait for the revelation. You are a mean taskmaster. Lol, thanks for the chapter. Glad to see some progress being made.
Stevean Bozek
The dreaded Friday cliffhanger. Jake finally gets to the interesting bit with meditate and now I'm looking forward to Monday, which I resent.
CT
Manifestation of Jake Juice / Bloodline ? First layer of divine realm? "If Jake realized the true purpose of Meditate as a mere C-grade" or perhaps true purpose is overcoming the cliffs we have survived along the way :)
Daniel Brian
You have unlocked Transcendant Meditation!
brjenness
Huh...I thought the resource for sleep/meditate was time in real world and in some weird voodoo way it sped up time in the truesoul to repair and grow. So much for that theory.
Daniel
Nice, typo: “Dragon. Finding such a True Dragon while also making sure they weren’t too power or even too weak had taken more than three years, so far, and while a few candidates had been found, not one of them had struck the Viper as perfect quite yet” —->power—-> powerful
Eric Shivak
TFTC Did Jake just create the first stage of his Divine Realm? Wowsa
Indevan Jones
Tyfc!
Michael Best
Awesome chapter have a nice weekend!
eatingpitza314
why cliffhanger
Zizawah
This chapter shows why we shouldn’t have been joking if Zogarth has been feeling fine because hard cliffs were missing on Fridays. Now we have a cliff and I’m feeling rather annoyed about not being able to read the next chapter until Monday! Thanks for the intriguing chapter!
Loststar7
Thanks for the chapter and a soft Friday cliffhanger. Have a great weekend everyone.
Burkes
Mandatory jail time for a cliffhanger this huge.
Staudi
Tyftc!
Ben Cox
Why would you do this to me zogarth so many chapters later we finally see jake make some sagely progress and you kill me with another Friday cliffhanger. Tyftc I will be waiting most impatiently for Monday
Sylphie
Ree!
Shaun Warrington
Friday cliffhangers 🥺
Jason
I used to like Fridays.. then I became a Patron here. Tftc!
Sammot
There is a layer even deeper then the truesoul? Is this where gods turn their souls immortal from or am i reaching?
Ed Soto
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Jordan
There’s the Friday cliffhanger!!!!!!
Michael Fannon
Nice cliff
GeneralBlack
Of course a impeccable cliffhanger in Friday... Well played Zogarth well played.
Rewdan
So many storylines running concurrently is hard to keep up with. Loving the work Zogarth.
Noname
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Connor
Thanks for the chapter
Island Relics
Many mahalos
Beemoss
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Kirin
Thanks for the chapter!
Jan
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Niclas Elmers
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