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Chapter 1053 - Recap Time With Villy
🕑 Added 2025-01-14 12:15:10 +0000 UTCIt was already well-established that the First Sage was overpowered as fuck, yet his level of overpoweredness seemed to have no end.
Jake was silent for several seconds after Villy’s revelation until he also couldn’t help but chuckle at the absurdity of everything. It was truly to the level of just being silly. It also helped Jake even further understand why Villy had never really viewed the First Sage as a “person,” and honestly, Jake had also begun to change his view.
He was more akin to a bug in the system. A natural force that had moved the entire multiverse in a certain direction. He had exploited early and often, taken advantage wherever he could, learning everything there was to learn along the way. At the same time, the system had apparently also been learning from him, creating what would eventually be the two most basic damn skills of the multiverse.
“He really is something,” Jake said, shaking his head as he stopped laughing. “Or was something. Honestly, I’m not sure how to classify him, and it feels weird talking about the First Sage as if he’s some ancient figure from history, considering I just spoke to him.”
“His existence being confusing is only to be expected, as even now I at times find myself perplexed when I recall things he could do,” the Viper joked. “I am also pleasantly surprised that you can even learn that he is the Origin of the Identify skill now. You couldn’t before.”
“I couldn’t?” Jake asked, confused.
“I tried to tell you once, but as it’s considered Forbidden Knowledge, it was censored. However, now it seems that has changed... perhaps not just for you... just give me a second real quick...”
Villy was silent for a few seconds before he reconnected.
“Nope, still Forbidden Knowledge. Details pertaining to Meditate, too,” the Viper said, Jake not even wanting to know how he’d just tested if it was still Forbidden Knowledge. Okay, he totally knew the Viper had just teleported some random innocent person to him, shared the Forbidden Knowledge, and confirmed the person couldn’t know. As for what he’d done to that person afterward... yeah not something he should think about.
“You know, you seem awfully accepting of the bombshell I just dropped. At least after your initial reaction,” Jake couldn’t help but point out.
“I could say the same about you. You also don’t appear very surprised upon learning that the First Sage is also the original creator of the Identify skill,” the snake god accurately pointed out.
“Well... it seems very on-brand for him,” Jake muttered, also realizing why the Viper wasn’t that taken aback when he reflected on his own lack of surprise. They had both been personally exposed to the ridiculousness of the First Sage, so why would they be overly surprised knowing the man had done something ludicrous? His entire existence was ludicrous in the first place, so whenever Jake heard he had done something else insane, his initial reaction was just: “Yeah, that tracks.”
A feeling perhaps only the two of them in the entire multiverse could share as only they could bond over just how overpowered the First Sage had been.
“I can also feel that this knowledge about Meditate and the Sagacity upgrade weren’t the only things you gained from Master. Through this connection alone, I can feel something has changed with you. You feel more... whole. Did you get an upgrade to your Anomalous Soul skill, allowing it to mutate further?” Villy asked, moving the conversation forward.
“It did indeed upgrade,” Jake readily confirmed as he scratched the back of his head. “The Record Fragment I absorbed manifested into an image of the First Sage within my Soulspace and proceeded to beat the living shit out of me until I learned how to not get beaten up anymore.”
“One must admire Master’s ability to change his teaching style according to the one he’s teaching,” Villy chuckled. “I do wonder... why did he even agree to help you? Can you tell me more about what happened during this vision?”
Jake nodded as he began to narrate everything that had gone down right from the moment he appeared in the town the First Sage hailed from. From the beginning, Jake’s narration got incredibly slow as Villy asked incredibly in-depth questions about things Jake would usually consider unimportant, such as the layout of the First Sage’s house and over-descriptions of everything in the entire city Jake had seen.
After some time, Jake understood why the Viper wanted to know so badly... because he’d never actually seen where the First Sage lived before the system. He’d never seen the library the First Sage held so dear or known many of the things the First Sage had told Jake during the walk down memory lane they had. Villy had known some things here and there, also aware of many things Jake wasn’t, but never had he gotten such a comprehensive history of the First Sage.
The more time passed, the more assured Jake became that the First Sage hadn’t just shared what he did to engrain his Records in Jake’s memory but because he knew all of it would eventually funnel back to the Malefic Viper. Perhaps he wanted the Primordial to remember, considering he couldn’t forget anything, or maybe he was just doing his disciple a favor. Either or, Jake gladly shared everything, leaving very few details out as he went over his entire encounter with the First Sage.
Jake also made sure to share the advice the First Sage had regarding getting over the feeling of loss. How one should instead focus on having a goal while finding comfort in that as long as one was alive, the memories – and thus Records - of those one held dear would also live on. It was basic sappy advice that Jake felt didn’t really resonate much with the Viper, as he definitely already had his own ways of coping or already knew. Still, Jake wanted to share it, and he also shared some of his own thoughts.
“I am ninety-nine percent sure the reason he wanted to die wasn’t actually because of how he struggled with his memories,” Jake said. “Sure, it may have played a minor role, but the true explanation is definitely part of something bigger. Some grand plan of his. He kept talking about how it just had to be that way. What I’m trying to say is that you really have no reason to feel guilty about killing him in the first place.”
“I already halfway knew that there was far more to it, but thank you for confirming,” Villy said after a bit. “Guilt is a weird thing, though. I know he wanted me to kill him; I know it was part of his plan, yet I still feel guilty for having done so. Maybe I just believe like I should feel guilty, and the explanation he wanted to die out of sadness just fit better with that narrative.”
“Yeah, that’s kind of dumb,” Jake shrugged, trying to lighten the mood with his jovial attitude. “Clearly, he didn’t die because he was sad, and let’s be honest, if the old man hadn’t wanted to let you kill him for some grand design of his, he would have turned you into string cheese before you even managed to touch him. I have a very hard time seeing anything kill him unless he wanted them to.”
“True, I guess,” the Malefic Viper said before urging Jake to continue talking about the vision.
All estimates Jake could have had about how long this talk would take were entirely overshot as the two of them spoke for hours upon hours, mainly because Jake had to go into so many details. It was as if the Viper wanted to form very vivid images from Jake’s descriptions so he had an as accurate understanding of what happened as possible.
Jake had totally expected Villy to be utterly shocked when Jake shared the First Sage slaying the Void Dweller, but he seemed to think that was entirely normal and just urged Jake to continue as explanations of how the emptiness of space looked naturally weren’t that interesting.
Soon enough, they reached past the point where Jake had Sagacity had upgraded, and the vision would soon be coming to an end. Villy was a bit surprised when Jake said that the First Sage had effectively killed himself to create the Record Fragment book but didn’t question it further as Jake continued and moved on to what had happened inside his Soulspace.
Surprisingly enough, the Viper didn’t seem very interested in what had gone down within Jake’s Soulspace at all. To Jake, it had been pretty damn impactful, but Villy didn’t care much beyond knowing the result. The god also clarified he knew Jake’s soul had a chance to mutate in the direction it had, but as always wanted Jake to find out himself.
As for Villy never having told Jake to train and get better acquainted with his Soulspace... well, according to the snake god, he had never seen the need to. In his words:
“To me, it wasn’t a question of you hunkering down and working tirelessly on your Soulspace to better understand yourself and find balance, but merely one of time. I don’t even believe it left you vulnerable to images of Records, as should you ever be truly at risk, the Records of your Bloodline would do all it could to survive. Now, the First Sage is a complete outlier who has all the right qualities to push you toward this upgrade. Something I wouldn’t be able to do even if I wanted to,” Villy simply said.
“Would you recommend that I keep practicing and trying to improve the Soulspace further?” Jake questioned.
“I would recommend studying the Record Fragment about the Meditate skill left by the First Sage and try to learn from that before doing anything else with your Soulspace,” the snake god answered. “In fact, I would put it quite far up on your priority list to learn from the First Sage, though I doubt you can learn even a fraction while still in C-grade. I truly believe that in the vast multiverse, there is no better teacher.”
“Not gonna disagree with that one,” Jake nodded, having firsthand experience getting two mythical rarity skills and a book for future study from just one brief encounter.
Soon enough, Jake reached the end of his narration of his vision adventures, right up until the moment the First Sage turned back into the Record Fragment book... at which point the old man had said some words Jake felt a bit awkward passing on, but knew he had to.
“This feels a bit weird, but the First Sage did ask me to pass on a message to you right before he disappeared,” Jake said, taking a deep breath. “He wanted me to tell you that he’s proud of you and proud of what you’ve become.”
It was a brief message that, to some, perhaps even seemed hollow. Yet it carried a lot of meaning, and after Jake said this, the Viper took a moment to himself. Jake remained quiet throughout, giving the snake god all the time he needed before Villy eventually spoke.
“Thanks for passing it on.”
The two of them were quiet once more for a while, Jake trying to remember if he’d forgotten anything important. He had purposefully excluded some tidbits of information here and there and hadn’t shared stuff like the First Sage saying it was good that Villy had a friend and all that, as saying something in that vein would just be too damn awkward.
Villy also clearly wanted a bit of time to digest everything, but soon enough, he restarted the conversation.
“I will say, the First Sage you met does strike me as slightly different to the one I knew and remember. Not in that he’s a different person, but he clearly knows a lot more than even when he died. At least it strikes me that way,” the Malefic Viper said. “Which is quite peculiar. I saw no signs of him having knowledge of the future when I knew him, but during that vision of yours, he clearly knew things that would be impossible to know during the first Era.”
“It has something to do with his Bloodline, right?” Jake asked without much thought.
“That would make the most sense. The question is how it works. One theory I had was that he could read the Records of our time through you and the system because his Records are so omnipresent throughout the universe through Identify and now apparently also Meditate, but some things seem off with that theory. Such as why he didn’t seem to have any knowledge about you, nor did he mention any of your creations you’ve made using your Origin manipulation,” Villy theorized out loud.
“Yeah, I did notice that,” Jake nodded. He also hadn’t purposefully brought any of them up or even mentioned his Primeval Origins abilities during his meeting with the First Sage.
“I guess it doesn’t truly matter how he knows about the future, just that he does... though it does give me some fundamental questions about how the multiverse, the Bloodline, and time works. One thing I do feel fairly confident about is that you caused him to know. You manifested his existence through your Path of the Heretic-Chosen, setting everything into motion,” the Viper continued.
Jake slowly nodded along, having already had thoughts that was the case, though he did bring up that it wasn’t entirely him. “I would say this seems like part of some bigger plot, though. I got the boots that the First Sage used to reach out and set up this meeting as a reward from the system, and I seriously doubt that’s just some big coincidence.”
“True,” the snake god agreed. “It’s all kind of exciting, isn’t it? All very mysterious. I must say, I doubt many – if any – other gods can brag about their C-grade Chosen somehow unveiling fundamental truths of the multiverse and creating genuine intrigue for their gods.”
“What can I say? I’m just built different,” Jake grinned. “And now better than ever after my soul upgrade.”
“Indeed,” the god chuckled before turning a bit more serious. “Now, while I feel fairly confident all knowledge related to the First Sage is considered Forbidden Knowledge, I would still be careful and avoid speaking about him and your recent encounter. Not even what you’ve learned. Especially be careful around that follower of Oras.”
“Arnold?” Jake asked, confused. “Why?”
“The only two people I know for sure have knowledge of the First Sage and his secrets are us. However, I cannot rule out that the Void Gods may also be aware of his existence. While I doubt the C-grade human will be allowed to know Forbidden Knowledge, I know that one of the primary reasons Oras even blesses people in the first place is to better connect to and perceive the material plane, making it not a stretch to assume he will be able to hear and see through those blessed,” Villy explained, giving Jake some food for thought.
And with good timing, too, as Jake’s immediate plan after talking with Villy was actually to stop by Arnold and discuss his bow, which was in a pretty bad state after his fight with Ell’Hakan.
“Any other warnings I should keep in mind?” Jake asked.
“Not really, no. Just keep trucking along and do remember to study the Records left by Master, especially the knowledge regarding healing your soul and thus Palete. While I’m looking into methods to fix it, no solution I can offer is better than one found through your own effort. Oh, and of course, don’t even think about evolving to B-grade before Palate is fully healed,” the Viper reiterated a warning the First Sage had also given.
“I know,” Jake sighed.
“Good. Now, I’ll let you get back to things, and I also have some ideas and thoughts I need to fully digest. When your system event is over, we can have a proper sit-down as we do have some more things to discuss, but I prefer to do so in person,” Villy said.
“Sure thing,” Jake nodded. “Any final advice before I set off? Perhaps ones pertaining to me soon invading the Holy Church’s territory?”
“Refining the bodies of Holy Church members into alchemical ingredients tends to create horrible materials as the holy affinity doesn’t mix well with the Order’s alchemy methods.”
“Very useful, thank you,” Jake said in a deadpan tone while shaking his head.
After a final goodbye and agreement to talk again later, Jake got up and prepared to go find Arnold to hear if he had some ideas regarding his semi-broken bow. As he was heading up toward the lodge, he also considered how everything was progressing in the Milky Way galaxy, as while the vision itself hadn’t taken much Realtime, the talk with Villy sure hadn’t been a short one.
I should also contact Carmen... Bertram did recommend having her as a potential backup when I invade the Holy Church’s territory.
Comments
The Uub
Baseball, huh?
Parker Bond
Jake will use his Jake Juice to revive the first sage
Dave
Tftc
ali özcan karteper
It was a great chapter. I have a small theory. I think the first sage, being dissatisfied with the lack of knowledge during his time, had himself killed. I believe Class C was probably a turning point. I think he somehow sealed his soul into something, and after a certain condition is met, it will activate and fight for something within the system. It's possible that he is keeping his soul alive through the records of the 11 students he left behind.
Greedsmith
I just can’t wait until we meet the First Sage again, it will probably take a long time, but still.
Enko
The first library where jake met the first sage was in his old city while the second one was in the tower near the desolate area where he baited villy, I believe
Steve
Just trying to consider a potential continuity problem, it says Villy didn't ever get to see the library, but in the vision Jake had weren't the first sage and Villy meeting in the library?
Damian Horbal
If the being didn't have immortal mind it would just try to kill him on the spot and try to survive itself as it is another existence. Also if the creator of the skill is dead doesn't change a thing as with the demon in the ritual the records alone are just summoned.
Marc Jay Arr Cotamora
Has to fix desolation concepts first
Endern
Crazy theory time: We have seen what happened when Jake used his Juice on a Legacy skill that had its Origin in a being who had the Bloodline of the Immortal Mind. Would it work the same way if that being was dead?
MrKorlares
No, way more likely it's some idiot faction of the holy church. They where interested in EH Bloodline from the start so they tested out if they could use it to manipulate the faith of people to a level where all reason was gone. Why did they have to do this you ask? We'll of course to make sure that the Bloodline could create faith in someone or something else than the user. What better way to test this then to create a false god? There are to many hints linking the Bloodline and holy Church, also there has to be a good reason for Jacob to be pissed with them as he turned against a part of the HC. Also we need a new villain now so my bett is on a bunch of crazy holy church lunatics XD
Chloe
Referee! Oh by the way, Church folks make bad ingredients. Hahahahahahahaaaa Love the pragmatism. Reeeee. Tyftc
Martino Zanchi
I was thinking that a path for a primal hunter original meditate skill would be a version were his mind goes into a meditating state but his instincts don't so that he can keep on fighting while meditating to analyze things and recover recourses.
Alex
@Azayrian105 "I"s origin hasn't really been explained yet. It's accepted at this point that "I" is a false god - a pseudo-divine being brought into existence by the collective faith of a group of hardcore fanatics. Jake's intuition told him that Ell'hakan made "I" by accident when he overused his Bloodline on a particular planet, and essentially made the population believe that Jake was the literal personification of evil. There's clearly more to it than that since there's an individual that has complete immunity to "I"s desolation who collected "I"s core after the battle with the Fallen King; current bet is on Kindroth doing some shady shit, though this could be a bait and switch by Zog, since the connection between "I" and Kindroth is mostly just Kindroth making shady villain faces in the same chapters where "I" shows up.
Azayrian105
If I remember correctly “I” was an experiment with Elhakan’s bloodline but I can’t remember exactly when it mentioned that.
MrKorlares
Soo my guess is that the Holy Church is responsible for "I" and we will find out about that when Carmen gets to show us why Runemaiden are Divinity killers.
jobe matula
this series just keeps getting better and better.. everytime i wonder how the story line will keep my interest after a big "final" fight.. there's immediately another thing happening that keeps me invested
Deborah martins
Master
Dalton Service
Well there was that one time he mentioned the First Sage to Eversmile. So, it would have to have a special restiction to Jake in that case.
ABTelford
What on earth are you talking about? Magic? More? Mine?
ABTelford
Nope. I can’t remember when/where but Zogarth wrote something that says this isnt the case.
John Durrett
How dare you say that Collin isn't capable of growing up to be a Dragon if he sets his mind to it! Also i'm pretty sure Villy could be considered an Apocalypse Beast. :P
Richard Rader
Legacy of man Tongue of the myriad races Stealth attack My guesses
Corvid
Putting a bet in now, First Sage is the Origin of the entire system. Omniscience, nigh omnipotent power, knowledge of all aspects relating to it, creator of at least two of the fundamental skills everyone has, intrinsic link to the very first gods to ever ascend even if they can't remember it, and more. I'm thinking he had something to do with its creation.
Alex
One Step is a System Skill: Villy has a whole speech about it in one of the earlier books - he says it's believed to have been made up by the system itself. Given what we've learned in the past few chapters, and given that Jake saw the First Sage using One Step as he traveled through the void, it's highly likely that it's one of the First Sage's legacy skills.
Pickled Rick
He has also made leveling even slower by increasing his soul size so he needs more prey to fill his C grade cup
Pickled Rick
The Sage has just shown him that he is in control of his own soul realm and all his skills have a representation within the soul realm. Now he won't have complete control because skills are system granted so to fix it is probably similar to his fight with the FS only he will need to fight the system to take control of the skill to fix it instead of a fragment of the FS.
Pickled Rick
One step is not a universal skill. The FS's legacy skills seem to be system given skills or abilities that everyone seems to take for granted and have very low unlock requirements if any.
Tommy S
Kinda seems like the First Sage is like a virus. He's records are so pervasive that he cant truly die.
Nathan's Gambit
Or maybe onto this. Maybe the FS had his race evolution available, and when villy killed him he held back the death, kind of how he did with the Void dweller and instead of reversing the death, somehow used that time to activate the evolution becoming some kind of energy type being. So the viper still got the kill, the fs did technically die for a moment but before actually coming back he popped out into evolution space and somehow lives there now as a omnipotent being there in evolution space. It's how he knows who everyone is he as sees them as they evolve, it doesn't explain the not knowing Jake part. But it's an interesting theory
itsdlow
I love Jake and Villy chats. And now it feels like they are both disciples of the First Sage— so cool! TFTC
itsdlow
Possible reword: > He also hadn’t purposefully brought any of them up or even mentioned his Primeval Origins… - “He also purposefully hadn’t brought any of them up…
Asher Mack
Ooooooooh interesting!
Dragon
I think it was more that villy couldn’t speak about it to Jake not that Jake couldn’t hear it… at least I think that’s why he worded it differently this time (As in he couldn’t get the words out once he expressed the intent to reveal forbidden knowledge, this would be a good method for the system to keep forbidden knowledge secret from people like Jake),
Damien Kingsly
Perhaps it goes a step further, with the First Sage effectively becoming a memetic, information-based species when he reached the peak of C-Grade. One of the things that hasn’t been fully explained yet are the full extent of race changes possible upon Grade evolution. Maybe his evolution quest would have been to “fuse” with a being holding great potential by dying to them?
Joshua Little
I suppose it makes sense that all general skills were made by someone and are technically legacy skills. Thanks for the chapter.
Paul B
I can’t help but think that this phrase is a clue: “A feeling perhaps only the two of them in the entire multiverse”
Rob Lyon
In book 9 I think. The old elf was getting ready to send his findings about Jake's mana to the Altmire empire to have it studied and the viper intercepts it and basically vaporizes the elf. Cuz right at the end it says nothing's left but a lifeless Tower
Rob Lyon
I don't see something like that happening because that's Jade's mentioned one of the dangers of mindful meditation or soul meditation is it cuts you off from the outside world and that can be dangerous. He mentions at one point but other people was similar skills have to either have special arrays setups so they don't get ambushed or have someone near them outside world too wake them up if anything happens
Connor
Thanks for the chapter
Baged
I'm guessing that the skill where the new universe people can understand everyone is a legacy skill... or flight... or just any other skill that's called "basic." Oh... And time magic, for sure.
BearHandMan
TBH the more I learn about the FS the more I think his path aligns with Jake’s. FS seems to be the origin of many concepts. For example, what is energy? What are records? How do these relate to existence in general? What is life or death? What are experiences? What is a path? Seems like he understands the concepts of them so well he can triangulate each of their concepts to Identify or “see through” everything. Since these concepts are core components for any skill, I could see him being at the center of virtually everything. This would also explain how he’s omniscient and virtually nothing seems to be outside his knowledge base. And to him, if he has knowledge, he can utilize that knowledge to do anything as well. (Since he knows all the proper strings to pull) This would also explain why him as a C grade could kill a Void dweller without breaking a sweat.
BumAssBumAss
Villy said the "M" word!
Alex
It's funny because last chapter Jake was like "yeah if somebody tried to share forbidden knowledge with me my Bloodline would let me know that something fucky was going on, even if I didn't remember it happening," then Villy's like, "yeah I tried to share this forbidden knowledge with you before," and Jake's just like "...what."
Boffadeez
Lmfaoo 💀
Owen Kaz
I fully believe that he will study his soul during his practice, and using methods gained from studying the fragment, learn how to manipulate his soulspace, and thus the outer layer of his soul. From there, he can "Fix" his own soul, and thus repair Palate
brjenness
You want to use touch of Boffadeez on him and usurp his records,
brjenness
New favorite insult...I would break your body down into alchemical ingredients, but you would make horrible components.
brjenness
Whenever Villy pauses in a convo, I'm going to assume he tried to mention forbidden knowledge.
Alex
What other skills are going to be part of the First Sage’s legacy? One Step for SURE.
Cody
It’s like he’s got his own cooking show “better ingredients turn into a better dish!” 🤣
Michael mann
I can see identify being applied to the sphere of perception and being called “Primal Hunters Awareness” Just constantly knowing what and where everything is. Though I imagine that’s a late B / Early A skill
Lizy Flore
There it is.
Ghast Renave
Thank you for the chapter!
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Nick O'Gara
You are the bloodline, the bloodline is you... villy is the first sage.
Phoenixdrop
another thought I just had Jake always has his sphere of perception on the outside world when he meditates but while that sounds like a good thing we now know the losing of external senses is actually a secondary benefit so what would happen if Jake made his sphere of perception shrink so much that it could only see his soul as he meditates I’ll tell you that sounds like the Primal hunter’s deep meditation skill to me
Phoenixdrop
Well this has been a fun few chapters can’t wait for Jake to really start evolving meditate and identify with that book from the First Sage like those two skills have been with him the longest but have probably gone through the least amount of changes meditate is what let him enter his soulspace so that’s something but he mainly just upgraded it to let him stay calm by mimicking the feeling he got from the serine water until it was so extreme he popped into his soulspace by cutting himself off from the outside world so completely but identify I think he only really knows how to find out what blessings people have and otherwise nothing else sure the more he knows the more the skill tells him but that’s built into the base skill what I’m trying to say is I can’t wait to see what the absolute strongest versions of the two universal skills are even if it’s only the strongest version for Jake
Kasey Lindenmayer
Great chapter! Thanks!!
Pickled Rick
I can't help but feel like the First Sage is able to learn through the infection of people's path in real time in some sneaky symbiotic way. The knowledge he had seemed very much related to something that the Viper knows or influences in some profound way but the origin stuff is all a Jake original so the Sage can only gain that knowledge by "infecting" Jake, which he has now done using the book left in his soul realm. Villy pausing over the Sage killing himself to bestow records onto Jake has definitely caused some domino's to fall and for Villy to try and learn the real reason Villy had to kill him instead of just letting himself die, be killed by a random beast or trying to achieve Godhood himself.
Lawrence Dillon
I wonder how meditate is going to fix palate, and will jake get any desolation related skills when he fixes it. This desire for knowledge will fade amongst the never ending cliff hangers
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
Ty Cooper
Ha it's over the top to make Jake change the topic or realize he won't get an answer. I love it. But sagacity has all the knowledge from all who have the skill and are part of the sagacity as a whole. Which Villy gets all the knowledge so in theory he has billions of little workers out there running constant expansion. So someone at least in the order with sagacity has tried this
Matthew Lemon
Reminds me of "Anything you can do, I can do better"
Rahsheem Reid
Wow that was awesome thank You
ABTelford
Love this chapter! Great chat with Villy! But there was this one error I gotta point out as it made me cringe. “I would still be careful and avoid speaking about him, NOR your encounter with him. Not even what you’ve learned.” - replace “nor” with “and”. I could go on to explain why for 2 paragraphs, but…no. Trust me, my college degree was English and teaching. I try not to be a grammar nut but please fix this.
Almer Reyhan
Damn, 1000 chapters in and we're still in C grade!! And I love it! Zogart you're amazing!
kinglemur
I have a feeling that when Villy gained the bloodline it started a feedback loop to the first Sage, the bloodline exists within two people at different points in time. Cause the system didn’t give Villy a bloodline like the FS it gave him the FS bloodline, which makes me think that everything Villy learns to a certain degree it transferred to the FS or I’m entirely wrong and that’s fun to
C0bra$
Thank u for the story
Phasmatic7
Thankies
Samuel Nelson
Well, thank Villy that now I'll never stop wondering what happened for him to know why Holy Affinity bodies don't mix/taste well.
Alexander C Hyde
Soon enough, they reached past the point where Jake had Sagacity [had] upgraded, and the vision would soon be coming to an end. Delete selected word.
Ryan Linus
I just read that chapter — that was NOT a trivial reason for killing!!!
Ryan Linus
In that case he was trying to keep something secret, no matter how small odds or trivial— that makes sense. This is actually him going out of his way, even if a minor cost of time/cleanup, to solve a problem in an edgy evil way… He is indifferent to lesser beings suffering and wouldn’t go out of way to help but is not going to go out of his way to hurt them because he just doesn’t care. That’s a huge difference.
Luis
Chapter 635: Questions for the Altmar Empire
Christopher cashen
I bet the first sage created the system or is the avatar of the system. I’m probably completely wrong but that’d be fun
James Faulkner
Tftc!
Tommy
“Refining the bodies of Holy Church members into alchemical ingredients tends to create horrible materials as the holy affinity doesn’t mix well with the Order’s alchemy methods.” I cackled far too much at this 😂 excellent advice and focus from Villy TFTC
Frankie Rose
Loving the build up to the next arc !! Top stuff
Staudi
Tyftc Zog!
Staudi
Yeah i don't remember villy killing the man too .. do you remember wich chapter that was ?
ReadingObsessed
Well written, boss man. I rolled my eyes and thought filler when reading the chapter title but that was well executed.
Thalamus Dredge
Yeah I was just thinking that. It doesn't quite line up everything perfectly because he isn't aware of the primeval origins creations but alot would be explained by his records being self aware. Like a kind of first sage hive mind using the entire multiverse as a library gathering every piece of knowledge in existence using identify and meditate to access all external and internal data on everyone and everything.
Valhazstromoz
Same difference XD
Andromeda Adams
TYFTC
The Uub
He probably just popped in and tried to share with Snappy like he did previously. Jake wasn't privy to that though. I agree with you about your complaint adjectives.
Boomer
I see leveling as getting closer to to your potential and is capped by your records that's why we see bottlenecks and failure to evolve thus just leveling isn't all that great if it doesn't come with records and sitting and thinking doesn't generate much records I would imagine.
Peter Smith
So whos guessing that the the First Sage is the reason the system is curious without emotions....
Steven Tuttle
hes not collen and the first sage isnt jason lmfao wrong book lmfao
William WIlson
No he entered seclusion in the 8th era after he destroyed a tenths of it.
Boffadeez
Tell me why I wanna give villy a hug 😭. Great writing as always zog. 👏
Black Leg Sanji
When did that happen?
SilverSentry
Zog had Villy kill off that old man because he found out something about Jake's Mana...why are you surprised, my friend?
Sailesh Kumar Kumar
TFTC
Rewdan
Cheers Zogarth loving the work
Joshua Konieczka
After the last words of the benevolent monk and the records to upgrade meditate, I’m pretty sure we’re going to meet the daofather in the near-ish future.
Lizy Flore
For me it’s around 1~1.30pm… just in time for lunch! 😁
Lizy Flore
*85 eras. I think he went into seclusion during the sixth or seventh era.
Noah Mclelland
Lucky! Patreon updates at about 11:15pm! In Australia, def don't have work tmr morning, no totally not... definitely not addicted to this series lol.
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
Ryan Linus
I know this is kind of a dumb complaint but… “As for what he’d done to that person afterward... yeah not something he should think about.” is just a bit much… First of all he could literally just telepathically try to tell anyone at the order or if that’s not a thing, I don’t know… it’s obviously not the most practical, no-mess, way to test the theory… and if it was, I don’t know… I feel like Jake or the omnipresent narrator’s reaction shouldn’t be so cutesy / gleeful. I’ve never once criticized any decision you’ve made Zog but this just strikes me as wrong for a bunch of little reasons.
Valhazstromoz
Our boi villy got told hes a good boy by his adopted daddy and now his lil divine danger noodle tail is waggin because he is in fact ...........a good boy
Noah Mclelland
Well how the meditation skill is explained is that it refocuses the outer layers of your soulshape from outside senses to then focus on channelling energy into your body, so what if you could then focus and guide energy, or possibly eventually(an evolved version of the meditate) records, straight into a skill, specifically the damaged aspects of palette to hopefully repair it?
Beemoss
Tftc
Martino Zanchi
I want to share a theory about the first sage. I had already though about it before this chapter and this one gave me even more to think. The name of the FS's bloodline is a bit weird. It is called Bloodline of the immortal mind which is cool and all but doesn't explain its function very well. We could say that an immortal mind is a mind that does not age and isn't affected by time but we could also say that an immortal mind is a mind that can not die, connot stop existing, even if separated from the body or the truesoul for countless years. Certainly food for thought.
Cory Sauls
TFTC!
Justin Moen
Man, I suppose it would be out of character but I was hoping to see a bit more reaction from villy and more conversation than just “they spoke” Tyftc!
Justin Moen
Same! So obsessed with the FS
Robert Phipps Jr (Perren d'Wolff)
I think the advise was more along the lines of "choose your corpse ingredients carefully, to ensure they match your needs and path" that or simply "some corpses work better"
Sarianne Roodenburg
I had already forgotten we were still in the system event 🤦🏼♀️ well, on to reclaiming the orange bastard's stolen soulfragment 😁
Daniel Francis
Time to kick church butt
Loststar7
Thanks for the chapter.
Mohammed Sheekh
I wonder what version of meditate the daofather has since his legacy allows his followers to level up through meditating
AwesomeMug box
I’m lucky I get to read it at 5:20 when I wake up in the morning
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter 😁
Matthias
Tftc
frankie doerr
We need a villy pov chapter or villy adjacent
Colton Horton
TFTC!
Marc Jay Arr Cotamora
I believe meditation will be the key to fixing the palate. Probably evolve it to mythical before fixing it.
Daniel Brian
Felt like a much needed epilogue after all the FS stuff. I write sometimes, but damn dude... You're prolific! Would love to pick your brain about your writing process if you ever see this.
Zack Leach
Thanks for the chapter! You know, i kind of feel like jake's bloodline saw villy's remembering things better and got butthurt about something being better at a task than it so it subtly evolved to let jake retain more things.
Kjell
You know that there's a discord channel
Kaelen Moore
Thank you sir for the chapter, I’m looking forward to what comes next
Yanyan _05
Thank you for the chapter !!
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter!
Tr0LLach
....and we don't get Villy's reaction to FS insinuating Primordials were created to keep balance in the multiverse. Pain.
Ethan Alexander
Best advice ever, don't use the corpses of your enemies as ingredients, it's not worth the effort.
Unwillingmainer
I think that one conversation might just have helped Villy heal more than 90 eras of seclusion. Jake really is the best Chosen a snake god could ask for.
Quark Eiweis
Tftc
Frédéric Cantin
Tyftc
Ashley Stephens
Imagine someone walking into your church fortress and claiming that your not even worth refining into an ingredient. Damn.
Sir Alex
Tftc, its 9:20am in brazil and I've been refreshing this page since 9am IM ADDICTED ZOGARTH
SyndaXatrix
Thank you for the chapter!
Drana :D
Thank you for the chapter
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter!
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
