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Chapter 1085 - A Quality Week
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 12:08:51 +0000 UTCThe Sword Saint would be lying if he said he hadn’t expected that question to come at some point. He also understood why, from their point of view, it was odd for him to carry around an ancient vampire artifact without turning into a vampire himself. However, no matter what people thought, he had his reasons.
One’s they quite frankly weren’t privy to.
“Vampirism... isn’t part of my Path,” he merely said with a sigh, hoping the discussion would end there, even if he knew that wasn’t going to happen.
“Perhaps not right now, but one’s Path is nothing if not adaptable,” Katherine argued. “I did a bit of research on you, and from my understanding, you are a man who pursues the sword with great fervor, yet you also have a profession. Painting. While I understand you might find such a pastime relaxing or perhaps even soothing for the soul, it doesn’t quite seem to fit with your Path from my perspective.”
The Sword Saint remained quiet as the True Ancestor continued. He knew he wouldn’t hear anything he hadn’t already considered himself, but out of politeness, he at least allowed her to try.
“Meanwhile, should you become a vampire, you could shed that profession and pursue the sword far more single-mindedly. What’s more, considering who you are and that you own the Blood Legacy, I’m confident you will evolve into a powerful variant. The affinities of water and time that you cultivate currently are also easily transferable, as time is a common affinity controlled by vampires already, and with your powerful water affinity, you can combine it with blood and create something even greater. Overall, I believe you would become a lot more powerful as a vampire with your endurance in combat especially shooting through the roof with your resources combined. I see very few downsides to embracing vampirism at your current stage.”
“What would those downsides be?” the Sword Saint asked.
Katherine, likely believing she had a chance to convince him, continued speaking. “Vampires are, as you know, not a popular race in the multiverse. That will naturally create some challenges. I will also admit that your Path will be more locked than before. You will need to cultivate some parts unique to your vampire race, but those will more likely than not happen in concert with sharpening your blade against powerful foes. Admittedly, I also do not know how your current Patron will react, seeing as I cannot recall the Primordial of Time ever blessing vampires before. Then again, he rarely blesses anyone. Lastly, as a vampire, you will need to feed, but I’m certain you would be able to have that sorted working with skilled alchemists.”
“Feeding would not be a problem,” Iskar chimed in after Katherine was done talking. “Remnants of Sanguine’s power reside within this Blood Legacy, allowing the owner to passively restore blood energy without the need for feeding. Sadly, it only works for mortals, though.”
“Vampire gods don’t need to feed anymore, though it does remain beneficial to us. Just not a requirement,” Katherine explained something that both Iskar and the Sword Saint hadn’t known. “This means that if what Iskar said is true, you will be able to be a vampire without perhaps the biggest downside.”
“I see,” the Sword Saint nodded before sighing. “And yet the answer remains no... for it still does not suit my Path.”
“As I said, Paths are adaptable,” Katherine reiterated, trying to remain convincing. “I understand that you may be stubborn and believe that-“
“True Ancestor... the answer remains no and will always be no,” the Sword Saint said, leaving no room for discussion. However, for good measure, he did momentarily flare his aura as a Transcendent. Fairleigh and the True Ancestor both weren’t Transcendents and thus couldn’t passively sense he had one, but at least Miyamoto had learned to purposefully display his status when he so desired.
Katherine didn’t seem overly surprised at his aura, likely having already known he was a Transcendent beforehand. Again, anyone with a Transcendent could feel he had one, and at Nevermore, there had naturally been others around, including people from major factions who were pretty much just there to identify others with Transcendents.
She also seemed to instantly understand why he rejected her advice and simply nodded. “Very well, the decision is ultimately yours.”
“Thank you,” the Sword Saint bowed. Primarily because he knew he had been a little rude for interrupting her earlier. Not that the vampire god seemed offended in the slightest.
“I perhaps overstepped,” the True Ancestor acknowledged her mistake. Meanwhile, Fairleigh was merely looking at them while clearly trying to handle the pressure from being in the presence of a powerful god. He wasn’t looking that good. Contrarily, the Sword Saint had already adapted to her aura, and while he could certainly still feel her presence, it was quite manageable.
“With that matter settled... I am curious to learn more about the history of vampires. The parts most people don’t know, as I’m sure several factions have done much to suppress or erase your history,” the Sword Saint said.
Truthfully, he wasn’t that interested, but he knew the vampires liked to speak of their history, and he didn’t lie when he said he held some level of curiosity. Plus, the more he knew, the better he could avoid making any mistakes while dealing with high-level vampires in the future. It was something he had a feeling he would end up doing quite a lot, considering his plans to forge a good relationship between the six families and the Noboru clan.
Katherine smiled. “It would be my pleasure to enlighten you. Fairleigh, go get us some refreshments.”
“Yes, True Ancestor,” the man bowed as he hurried out of the room.
“That was kind of you,” the Sword Saint said, easily seeing through why she had sent him away. He didn’t doubt she had plenty of such refreshments on her already, so for her to send him out was clearly just a nice way to give him a break.
“Usually, mortals don’t do well around gods for too long, though you do appear to be an exception to that rule. Courtesy of the Chosen of the Malefic Viper, I assume,” she said with a smile.
“Jake does have that kind of effect on people,” Miyamoto nodded with a smile, deliberately using Jake’s first name to communicate their closeness.
“In exchange for me telling you some of our secrets, perhaps you could share stories about your adventures with the Chosen?” Katherine asked with a raised eyebrow.
“I would gladly divulge some embarrassing anecdotes,” the Sword Saint joked as he and the True Ancestor began the first real meeting between the Noboru clan and the vampires from the six families.
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“And you’re sure you don’t want to come in?” Irin asked, turning to look at Jake.
“Nah, I’m good,” he shrugged. “You just go ahead and do your thing... a bit quicker this time if possible.”
“Alright, alright,” Irin shrugged as she went into the fifth clothing store in a row, with Jake not even bothering to enter this one. He still didn’t understand why Irin kept buying clothes that didn’t even provide any stats, and none of her explanations made sense either, so he’d just chosen to accept it. He could understand that she wanted a few sets, but at this point, she had to at least have bought a dozen.
It had been a few days since he returned to the Order, and during this period, he’d naturally spent some quality time with Irin – solely to help her level up and stuff, of course – and even done a bit of meditation reading here and there.
Today, they’d gone out to do a bit of shopping as Jake wanted to buy some alchemical ingredients. What kind of ingredients? Well, he wasn’t entirely sure yet, which was why he decided to go shopping so he could see what was available. The plan was kind of just to look through a lot of the more popular stores before something would hopefully catch his eye. In other words, it was a planned shopping trip to make spontaneous purchases.
While they had certainly looked through a few alchemy stores already, and Jake had even bought a few things, he was beginning to reconsider if having Irin along was a good idea. Was she good at knowing all the best shops, and did her guidance save him a lot of time he would have otherwise spent aimlessly wandering around? Yes. But a lot of that saved time was instead spent on clothing stores.
To make matters worse – or maybe better, Jake wasn’t sure yet – she’d even bought some clothing for him to wear. The kind Jake would never usually wear as he preferred his armor, which he had been told was kind of weird. People usually wore different clothing when not going to battle, and only mages or casters were known to just wear their usual equipment at all times.
Jake could understand why many warriors preferred more casual clothes during their everyday lives, as laying on a couch in full plate armor didn’t sound very relaxing. Meanwhile, people with medium armor, such as Jake, sometimes walked around in their full getup despite not having any plans to fight, even if it was still viewed as very weird to wear it when chilling at home.
One small point of clarification was that despite not technically wearing one’s armor, one would still get the stats provided. According to the system, any bound armor to a person was always worn, which was also why it was so easy to change in and out of in an instant and why, despite it being nearly entirely destroyed, as long as it wasn’t fully gone, one would keep all the stats. It was powered by the glory of system-fuckery to the extreme.
All of this is to say that Jake had no real excuse to keep walking around with armor on while at home. Was he still going to walk around with armor on at most times anyway? Probably... but now he at least had some stuff to change into if he wanted to.
Jake wasn’t really that annoyed at Irin, as he was at least partially to blame. He had been the one to talk about his visit with his parents and let slip that he walked around in full battle getup even back then, only wearing “casual” clothes a few times here and there. When she’d asked him why, Jake had made the excuse he didn’t have anything else to wear, which was a big reason why he had ended up in his current predicament.
Anyway, Irin was soon done shopping as they went to see a few more alchemy stores before it was time to head home again. Jake had considered if he also wanted some new equipment but had ended up deciding not to. He knew Arnold was still working on more stuff for him, and with the newly gained ring that granted a fuckload of stats, he wasn’t really feeling the effects of not being fully capped on stats he could get from equipment.
Finally, he wanted to see what the Pantheon of Life had available. From what he’d gathered, chances were he could get some nice equipment there, too, perhaps even some that was better than what the Order had to offer. The Order wasn’t exactly known as crafters of medium armor, which Jake preferred to wear, while the Pantheon of Life had a lot of hunters and fighters wearing equipment similar to him, naturally resulting in them also having a lot of leather workers and bowyers.
After spending another few hours shopping, Jake and Irin headed back to Jake’s residence. Jake had stocked up on a lot of alchemical reagents, and he had more coming in the form of large bulk orders he’d placed directly with one of the higher-ups of the Order, gladly abusing his status as the Chosen of the entire organization. All of this is to say Jake should have plenty to tide him over for a long time.
Back at the residence, Jake was just reminded of something as they appeared from the gate in the entryway. “Say, did you find out about Scarlett, by the way?”
Seeing as he was at the Order, Jake had wanted to meet up with the albino snake to see how she was doing, but it turned out she wasn’t around. He had considered asking Villy if he knew where she was but had just asked Irin instead. She was a bit weird in the sense that she really liked when Jake asked her to do things for him, so he sometimes asked her for favors for no good reason. In this case, asking about Scarlett was fully within the boundaries of her job description, making it not weird at all while also clearly making her happy.
“Let me just check,” Irin asked as she took out her token and scanned it for a moment. “Ah, yes, it says here she’s currently away on a dungeon expedition with a group consisting of members from different Dragonflights. Should have guessed that one.”
That was also when Jake remembered that fateful dinner party that had ended with that guy from the Azure Flight losing an arm to Villy roleplaying a waiter. After such an ordeal, Jake halfway expected the Dragonflights to be wary of Scarlett, but it appeared it was just the opposite, which struck him as odd.
“Why should you have guessed that?” Jake asked. “Have the Dragonflights been spending a lot of time with her recently?”
“That would be an understatement,” Irin chuckled while shaking her head. “After you officially revealed yourself as the Chosen of the Malefic Viper, many factions have tried to form relations with people you’re considered close to. Even Reika and her roommate Bastilla have had quite some attention on them as it’s well-known you went to a dungeon with them.”
“I see,” Jake mumbled. “I take it you’ve also been bothered a lot?”
“Oh, of course, but I see it only as beneficial,” the succubus shrugged. “I’m riding high on all that attention. Anyway, different factions chose to target different people. The Altmar are naturally trying to get close to Lady Dawnleaf, though in her case, it's also in large part due to her position as Duskleaf’s Chosen. As for Scarlett, the Dragonflights chose her as their target.”
“Should I be worried?” Jake asked with some concern.
“I wouldn’t be,” Irin shook her head. “We are all fully aware of what’s happening and are all just taking advantage. Plus, even if the members of these factions have been told to try and get closer to us, that doesn’t mean genuine connections can’t be made. Everyone involved knows what’s happening, so no need to be concerned.”
“Alright, I guess,” Jake sighed. He still didn’t like the notion that those around him always had to consider if people got close to them genuinely or just as a way to get to Jake. Maybe he was just projecting, as Jake didn’t like it himself that a lot wanted to get close to him simply because he was the Chosen of the Malefic Viper.
At least a lot of factions wanted to get to know him now because of his Nevermore performance and his Primeval Origins abilities. He found that a way more acceptable reason, as that was at least his own power and not just something gained from pure association.
Speaking of taking advantage of someone else’s status, Sylphie also wasn’t around as she was doing something Jake hadn’t expected she’d ever want to... she was taking a few lessons. That’s right, the small hawk had willingly asked Jake to go through the lessons available and selected some that she was interested in.
Maybe she was just bored or wanted out of the residence, as Jake and Irin had made liberal use of the mansion’s privacy feature, but the result was still good. From what she’d said, the lessons she attended were mostly related to techniques and methods to more efficiently digest natural treasures, so it definitely sounded like she was spending her time well.
Speaking of spending time well... Jake soon came to learn that Irin had also bought a few outfits for herself that were not exactly suitable for everyday use – even by succubus standards - and she was very interested in Jake’s opinion of them.
There was even a standing offer that if he wasn’t a fan, he was free to remove them at any time.
Like so, several days at the Order quickly passed, and soon, Jake and the others had spent a quality week at the Order. They had all done what they needed, and soon, it was time for them to leave once more as the Pantheon of Life awaited.
Comments
Alex
The reason the Sword Saint is adamant that vampirism isn’t right for him is that he feels it doesn’t fit his Path. Having a Transcendent Skill simply proves that the Sword Saint has incredible of mastery of his Path and is qualified to make a decision about whether it’s right or not. Asking the Sword Saint to change his Path when he already has a Transcendent skill is kind of like asking the kid getting straight A’s with a dozen top-tier job offers to change his major from business to computer science in college because you think computer science is a better major. It’s just not something you’d do because the person has already proven beyond any reasonable doubt that they know what they’re doing and where they’re going.
FleetfootedFleer
Does a Transcendence impede race change? curious bc of that line "She also seemed to instantly understand why he rejected her advice and simply nodded". is the transcendence the reason she accepts or him backing his decision with power?
Trumangolorian
Tyftc
Blaq Jesus
I was really enjoying the sword saint's story. It was very refreshing. I wonder about the perspectives of other characters as well.
Luis
19
Danny
I woud be interested in how many Level Irin gained. The first humpde dumpte got her 12 if I remember it right.
Zogarth
Fix
Jose Reyna
TFTC!!!!
Ty Cooper
Lol whatever. You know she was getting her levels to prepare for b-grade. She has to keep up and all that. She doesn't want to be a grade below Jake.
Ty Cooper
The interaction with Ygg and Tolkien should be pretty good. The parts with Artemis and Dina will be good as well. I am glad Jake will get a bow that meets his needs. It's always sad when Jake has a whimpy bow. The hunting grounds seems like it will be tons of fun for Jake also. Lots of good stuff. I do think Jake will hit b-grade at the fungus caves though. Going to crack up if Villy teleports Jake's old bed for him to evolve to b-grade at his mansion at the caves.
Hotep Saxis
I’m so hyped for the Pantheon of Life arc. New environments, new antagonists, new gear, levels… gonna be sweet.
Carl Never
There should be time in the demon relm to flesh that out maybe itll be helpful then
Chloe
Tyftc
Indevan Jones
He also can't evolve until pallet is fixed.
Hotep Saxis
He couldn’t leave earth and there was nothing to hunt there.
Michael Kawesa
I have a theory: Villy ordered Irin to step up her game on Jake before Artemis could do anything. That's why he cranked up his aura and convienently talked about her "behind her back".
Isaac Squires
The primal hunter, chosen of the malefic viper, chills with family and friends for over a year. Doesn't he need to get to B grade for this next system event? Jake has lost his drive.
Carl Never
New here but yeah searching up every chapter does seem odd they should just be in order with a next button or something
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Phasmatic7
Thankies
J W
When I first saw the new look I thought there was something wrong with my app. I thought surely no one would think this is an improvement on the previous Simple version.
Mike
Ya know we still don't know what Irins skill related to Jake does. She did say it was the best skill by far so I don't think it would be a joke skill but something useful for her and maybe powerful. The fact that we haven't heard what it does yet makes me feel like Zog might be saving it for something.
Mike
I do want this scene but not with palette fix at least. We have built up to Jake fixing it with FS meditation/soul stuff. So if we could get Villy force feeding Jake a mushroom for another reason that would be hilarious
Mike
I went to heart your post and Patreon asked me if I like their app. Clicking no sends you to a support page with no link for feedback lmao. This update is garbage 🗑️
Impanickin
Thank fuck that I’m not the only one that hates it. I sent a message on the Website Formerly Known as Twitter hours ago and haven’t gotten a message. I just want a toggle, let the people that like the new title cards have them and give me back my one line posts to scroll through instead
Carl Never
I was more thinking about him tricking jake and thus his own faction into growing his next meal
fruit dragon
To add to your point, what does it matter if somebody is killed or dies from old age if they end up dead anyway, at least if you're killed you might be a step for somebody to not eventually die and that's as good as you can get in the multiverse. G. Grade to s grade mortals are mortal
Jaroslav Zapadlo
What? Noo, this is the new arc already
Jaroslav Zapadlo
Well objectively, on this scale, indivoduals truly do not matter. Tale our era - it's beer around for 14 billion years, give or take. We are not important
Jaroslav Zapadlo
Let me just address the previews of chapters on the new version of Patreon application. Call me a nazi, but this preview style is a crime against humanity
ItsFin
Dont forget how he was in that one nevermore level with the demon's harem. Mans is the head of a whole clan afterall
ItsFin
Jake is the founder of the heretic/chosen but not either idividually so while it would be big records for both parties bc how hard it is to be/maintain, its still less than if Jake was the First Heretic or First Chosen ever
Noname
Also a god isn’t used to being respectful around mortals
Noname
Hunting
Alex
Villy is incredibly evil - don't think otherwise just because he treats his friends well. The thing you need to understand about Villy is that he's literally older than The System. He's ancient on a scale that the human mind cannot comprehend, and that causes him to view the world in a way that's very different to how you or I would. To Villy, if you aren't a god, or you don't have the potential to become a god, then you may as well not exist due to how fleeting and ephemeral your life is. Villy couldn't give a singular fuck about what happens to mortals - to his mind they're basically NPCs; their existence is so trivial and unimportant that what you do to them can't possibly be considered wrong, because in the grand scheme of things they may as well have never existed. Through this perspective, Villy rationalizes incredibly heinous things; like slavery, torture, and genocide. He has done those things, and will do them again, because in his mind the people he does them to don't matter.
Indevan Jones
Yeeesss!
Noname
But without dressing because with dressing it will ruin the effect
Carl Never
Oh no ive caught up with the story. Quick make some avatars to write chapters with you!!! I really liked the back of the brain idea of how evil villy might be. I dont think he is but you really made me question it. And meira is best girl be cool if she has a spotlight fight
Alex
I'VE FIGURED IT OUT. Disclaimer: this has literally nothing to do with this chapter. I've been thinking about how Eron pulls off his infinite health trick, and I believe I've got it. We've seen that Eron can reanimate the dead by infusing them with his 'spark' through some Bloodline fuckery; I think he's using the bodies he reanimates as health batteries. Jake says at one point that he doesn't think Eron has an infinite health pool, it feels more like has has lots of health pools (I think this is at the auction event after the Treasure Hunt), and I think that's the reason why - he's draining health from the people he reanimates to regenerate himself: since he infused the corpses with his spark it's technically 'his' health. He's like a really fucked up version of Minaga - he has one true body, but an absurd number of health pools because he's reanimated a bunch of people to act as healing batteries for him; if that's true then he's WAY more fucked in the head than I previously thought.
Indevan Jones
I really want Villy to find a mushroom in the mycotic Depths that could 100% fix Jakes palette, just so hed have to force jake eat it.
Psyck0
I'd imagine she'd think the whole order smell like Jake's smelly pot
Doodlenoodle
So Jake gets records from the fact that Irin have got skills that is due to his influence? I belive Willy once said that he got inspiration from how others evolved his skills not so much about if he gets records from them doing it.
MrEM4N
Oh my God please let there be a mini chapter from sylphies perspective in class.
Jonathan Hovey
TFTC. This feels like the perfect place to end a book.
Rahsheem Reid
Wooop
Polaris
And fallen king resurrection hopefully
Colton Carey
You know… shooting and stuff…
Nick
I believe it’s been mentioned that you do. Jake got records for his mythic skill he made for his shadow self.
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
jlb3275 gaming
I would say light armor would be like robes and stuff for mages etc
Valk
IRL armor categories light/med/heavy are hazy but you could say leather is medium if you wear a gambeson aka a very heavily padded cloth armor under it. In most cases you do that anyways just because having leather rub on you as you fight would hurt and get you sore. A gambeson is a really good cheap light armor on its own so you are basically wearing two light armors at the same time to make medium armor. Just a real fast armor lesson to hopefully help you out there is way more to it then just that for irl armors though.
Jordan Rogers
Just wish there was a mention of how many levels irin has gotten this week 😂
Doodlenoodle
Do we know if you Get records form being the creator of skills? Like do Willy gain records from everyone using his malific skills? Just the same if the FS still gains records due to the skills he created. So what i want to know is if Jake will gain records due to everyone who gets a heretic/chosen class or skills? As he is the cause of said skills coming into being.
kinglemur
Same but I guess some studded leather armor can count as medium armor depending on its make
Cyranosaurus
Great chapter! I think the only thing I missed was how many levels Jake “helped” Irin get🤣
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
NSaaby
Was thinking the Order was teatching Sylphie how to use a combat couldrun. The only proper way to use a smelly pot!
Tensetadpole
Did I miss something? Where did you find this?
Meruem92
Bold to assume Zogarth the god of the system makes mistakes!
PJ
Thank you for the chapter, hoss!
Rocotrap
Don't forget about our good SS, he also needs his ammo
BumAssBumAss
Always though Jake to be a light armor kind of guy with the leather he has been rocking.
Dick Ramsey
I think a goddess having a crush on Miyamoto is funnier than Artemis and Jake. The potential for shenanigans is higher imho.
John Looney
“Hunting”
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Alexander C Hyde
Agreed. Should be mortals.
Alexander C Hyde
(Katherine)Katherina smiled. “It would be my pleasure to enlighten you. Fairleigh, go get us some refreshments.”
C0bra$
Thank u for the story
Seiryus
Jake is single, no commitment was ever made with that girl who wasn't even actually the real Artemis. This could change in the future, though.
BearHandMan
Wish we knew how many levels Irin gained Stoked for the PoL 1. Soul healing 2. Better bow & equipment 3. Dina & gifts 4. Maybe a little more backstory on Villy’s wife/kid 5. Hunting with Art
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter. “One’s they quite frankly weren’t privy to.” —> You should at least drop the apostrophe, but I’d change the word entirely. Maybe “Reasons they weren’t privy to.”
Exodus Uno
Reika also deserves some love
Xander
TFTC :) Nice relaxing way to end book 15. On to 16 we go :) Suggested edits: "*Katherina* smiled." should be "Katherine" "“Usually, *morals* don’t do well " should be "mortals" "Courtesy ** the Chosen of the Malefic Viper," missing word "of" "In exchange for me telling you some of our secrets, perhaps you could share stories about your adventures with the Chosen *in exchange*?” repetition. Having "in exchange" at both ends of this sentence is unnecessary and sounds wrong. "the Altmar *naturally* trying to get close to Lady Dawnleaf, this *naturally* also being" repetition.
Clint
That would be hilarious, but actually understandable from the lore we’ve been given. It’s really lonely being a high-tier god, because no one can just be themselves around you. Jake’s presence conditioning might end up being even more transformative for the multiverse than his primal origin juice.
A Flashy BR
Tyftc See you Monday Zoggy
Boomer
You're forgetting records and one's path both will flavor one's personality, god's seem to be quite rigid in this regard perhaps part of becoming a god.
Robert Phipps Jr (Perren d'Wolff)
i would agree, but when read out of context like above it strongly fits.
D3monEmper0r
Also he's not acting old, he is old, the wise part might be debatable but I would say if the primordial of time says he's old than he is
Leonardo Krieck
Demon, the author needs to include a slap, can be him just proved wrong, that he is old and wise from earth point of view and in the multiverse he knows nothing. Not something hostile either.
D3monEmper0r
I would agree but slapping the sword saint isn't something any vampire God interested in keeping the relationship between them and the order stable would want to do. Showing hostility in any form to someone close to Jake while at the order of the malefic viper would be a moronic decision from their point of view
Roy Boy Meyer
Well, I guess he won't be needing his Jake Juice at the pantheon of life.. good Job Irin ;)
Lonnie
Gods work on a different time scale. It's not like they said anything about being exclusive in Nevermore. I doubt Artemis would care at all. She's a hunter, not a house wife
Ty Cooper
Lol was that even a cliffhanger? You feeling extra benevolent this Friday Zog? I am looking forward to this Pantheon of Life trip. Because, damn does it feel wrong knowing Jake doesn't have a bow that can hold up to his full power. I get that nothing was strong enough to need it in his galaxy, but it just feels wrong. Artemis also. It is fun having a God chasing Jake romantically. And did the SS just have one of his famous "cups of tea" with Katherine? It would be funny having a True Ancestor chasing him romantically.
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Joshua Little
Could probably go either way.
Zizawah
First impressions last a long time. I think it would take so many years to change Jake’s mind about either Meira or Scarlett.
Zizawah
Age does not equal wisdom. Fairleigh asked Jake once and immediately dropped the subject once refused. Katherine should know better. SS is wise and knows what he wants. He’s not a supplicant and he’s acting perfectly civil. Kudos to him!
Demonshadow639
Irin is probably one of my favorite side characters. She is awesome.
Keldra
Let's go
Timothy Spradlin
I think it is just a matter of time. I know i am looking forward to progression with Meria, i always liked Miranda (this one seems less and less likely every chapter though), Artemis is a given, and Scarlett I think earned some time with Jake. So a harem is very likely
dash w
Thanks for the chappy
Clint
“Morals don’t do well around gods.” Unintentional truth. 😂
Consumer of litrpg
I’m starting to think that Jake might not be the only person from Earth to get freaky with a God in the next few chapters…
Shadowessence
No, I am pretty sure it also works that way lmao
Cory Sauls
PoL time! Looking forward to that reunion.
Cory Sauls
Could not agree more.
Stevean Bozek
The Sword Saint is our harem protagonist in this series.
Thordur Stefansson
Kinda works both ways 😏
Bartlomiej Głowacki
Irin get a lot of chosen level backshots
Shai182
TFTC! I'm surprised Irin didn't ask Jake to tear away the clothes and just remove them. Such a missed opportunity to grow ;)
Leonardo Krieck
I feel like the approach and speech of the true ancestor a little empty and not something a ancient beeing will do, especially to someone who thinks himself wise. Thousands of years living and not knowing how to approach this subject with someone so young in her eyes. In the same vein, I really think the sword saint needs a slap some time in the future, he is a child in the eyes of immortals and act high and wise, he is not Jake that just act around Gods, he is acting like a wise old man and knows better than them.
Rewdan
Thanks Zogarth, I hope you have a good weekend. I've really enjoyed this weeks reading.
Matthias
Tftc
Grant Anderson
Yea, I dated myself with that one 😂
John Durrett
Now there is a jingle I’ve not heard in a while. :)
Beemoss
Tftc
Daniel Hamilton
I like the succubus, she’s always been honest from the very beginning.
John Durrett
Tyftc. Quick spot Usually, morals don’t do well around gods Usually, mortals don’t do well around gods
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter 😀
Naotsugu97
That was a funny typo!
Daniel Hamilton
Like so> like that
Naotsugu97
Thanks for the chapter. I cannot overstate how much I appreciate the way romance is handled in this series. It seems like choosing to write litrpg removes balance from authors vocabulary. Either you have a MC who is “I am a lone wolf, consigned to strive for the peaks alone” or you get harem litrpg! Seeing a MC who is not a prude, yet doesn’t devolve into a harem is very refreshing! Thanks Zogarth!
Unwillingmainer
Yeah, it's all for helping her level up and collect Records, not like you're getting anything out of this at all Jake. Though, dragging him around town, accidently showing off them together and then continuing that "leveling" is sure to help Irin out. Also, I have to wonder what Artemis will think when he shows up smelling like succubus? I get that the multiverse doesn't really give a damn and no promises have been made, but that may start things off rocky.
Darshar Griffonmane
Ah, so even a Primal Hunter is sometimes baffled by the Ancient "Hunt for Outfits". I really want to see Jake get pushed on his archery at the Pantheon. And I also really want awkward flirting tween a goddess and Jake, simply cause Villy -NEEDS- the ammo for future ribbing of Jake. tyftc!
Noname
Tyftc
Daniel Hamilton
Usually, morals > fix to mortals
Grant Anderson
🎵 "The best part of waking up is Zogarth in your cup!" 🎶
Connor
Thanks for the chapter
BNiz
Time to feast, hunters.
Markus Heiskanen
Tftc!
