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Chapter 1023 - Worthy of Being Called Rivals
🕑 Added 2024-11-19 12:12:32 +0000 UTCEll’Hakan stood atop the highest tower the palace had, alone, as he stared up at the starry sky and two moons hanging far above. He was still hidden within the barrier of the palace but potentially out in the open enough for the hunter to take his shot. However, so far, nothing.
It was nighttime, and he had a lot of matters on his mind. His most recent conversation with the Augur had truly given him food for thought, and he could admit that what would happen next would be hugely impactful for his Path.
He saw a total of four major Paths before him based on the choices he made and the outcomes of these choices. The first two included running as the Augur proposed. He would flee to another planet ruled by the Holy Church and lay low there until the Prima Guardian event was fully completed, at which point he would teleport to another universe and into the heartlands of the Holy Church. If he was there, no external threats mattered anymore.
The question from there would be if the Augur was correct because that’s where Ell’Hakan saw a potential issue. He knew the emotions of the hunter, and currently, he doubted that the Chosen of the Malefic One would simply forgive and forget, no matter how long passed.
He saw his two Paths with the Holy Church either ending with him living in peace or, more realistically, getting hunted down after many years. And, if he was being perfectly honest, he wasn’t sure either option appealed to him, as he’d never wanted a peaceful life in the first place.
The second two options included fighting the Chosen of the Malefic Viper. Such a fight would naturally have one of the two outcomes: each where either party won. It really didn’t need to be more complicated than that.
So, to run or fight. The Holy Church obviously wanted him to run, and Ell’Hakan knew why. They wanted his Bloodline. That was the deal they’d made, after all. That’s why they wanted him to pick the safest option available, and he was sure the Holy Church’s ideal scenario was one where Ell’Hakan went with them, advanced a few grades more under their influence, before giving them children who inherited his Bloodline... at which point they would no longer need him.
They didn’t care about him reaching his full potential. If he went with the Church, he also knew the lingering sense of regret from having run away from the fight would haunt him for the rest of his life. Chances are he wouldn’t be able to go as far as he should rightfully be able to, especially now that he’d become the Usurper of Yip of Yore.
No... even if he thought about everything logically, he really only saw himself having one real choice. Ell’Hakan was now stronger than ever before, and while he could admit that the Chosen of the Malefic Viper was superior to him in potential, that didn’t mean the hunter was stronger right at this moment. In the future, the gap would only widen, which made now the best moment to strike.
Should Ell’Hakan win, he would not only have removed a potential threat to his life down the line but cement his Path as a Usurper by creating a legend right off the bat. Proof that even if Yip of Yore had fallen to the Malefic Viper, his Chosen had still been superior to the Viper’s Chosen.
Even if he would face backlash from it, the Holy Church still wanted and needed him... and given enough time, he had confidence in getting real influence within the faction. He would make them see him as more than just a way to get his Bloodline, but as someone they truly couldn’t do without. Again, it wouldn’t be anything fast, but he had confidence down the line.
Of course, it all required him to actually beat the hunter, but as mentioned, Ell’Hakan didn’t feel like he had any better choice. It was either fight now while he was at his strongest just after the Usurper ritual, while even on his own homeworld, and with the hunter potentially still slightly weakened due to his recent soul damage, or sit back and wait for the hunter to kill him in the future.
So, even if he only had a one-in-a-thousand chance to win, it was the only option available. Besides, he believed his chances were a lot better than that, even if he wasn’t necessarily favored.
Having determined himself, Ell’Hakan gave the night sky a final look before walking down the staircase of the tower. Now he just needed to find the Chosen of the Malefic Viper... which turned out to be quite an easy task, considering about halfway down he got a notification that made his eyes open wide.
“The Planetary Pylon?”
For a moment, Ell’Hakan questioned what the hell the hunter could possibly be doing, but he knew it was a waste of time thinking, and the notification made it clear the Pylon was under actual threat. Without hesitating further, he rushed down the stairs and toward the Prima Vessel to teleport down there... and finally begin the confrontation that would decide how the ill-fated relationship between himself and the hunter would end.
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Jake felt pretty damn happy about the ritual circle he’d finally cooked up. Well, multiple circles. With careful hands, he placed them all around the Planetary Pylon. The energy given off by the Pylon aimed to destabilize the magic, but Jake had infused all the circles with enough stability for him to finish what he was doing.
After all the circles were done and placed correctly, several more hours had passed. He was ready to go, but Jake didn’t immediately begin as he instead took out a mana potion and consumed it. He then placed barriers around all the magic circles to keep them safe as he sat down in meditation for an hour to fully restore himself and get the potion cooldown back while getting him to an optimal state before the fight he assumed would soon come.
Back in near-top condition, Jake stood up and dispelled the barriers that were pausing the ritual. He then activated his ritualism skill once more and moved all the magic circles to make them overlap and bend as they, one by one, wrapped around the Planetary Pylon. They weren’t active yet, but they were still struggling due to the intense energy given off by the Pylon.
Either way, they would hold on long enough as Jake finally activated the ritual. Intense energy began to radiate from the magic circles, and he felt the Pylon instantly begin to fight back, but it was too late as Jake invited someone else into the core room.
“Divine Bargain of the Malefic Viper,” Jake spoke as he held out a palm toward the Planetary Pylon.
For a second, nothing happened. Then, suddenly, the energy began to change in intensity and aura while taking on a dark green sheen. The wrapping of magic circles broke apart in an instant but was just as instantly replaced with something far more powerful. A dozen dark green snakes appeared in the magic circles’ stead, encasing and wrapping themselves around the core like were they constrictors.
At the same time, Jake also felt a connection with whatever was going on as something was drained out of him. He didn’t know exactly what, but it mixed with the divine aura of the Malefic Viper and made the snakes take on a purplish gleam reminiscent of Jake’s arcane affinity. Right as they changed color, they also stopped squirming and froze, knowledge entering Jake’s mind.
The bargain was underway, and the system was evaluating everything as it slowly laid claim to the Pylon. Jake couldn’t help but smile as everything had gone as planned so far. While it wasn’t very feasible for C-grades to go around claiming and bargaining entire planets like this, in the realm of the gods, this was nothing. That’s why the system even entertained the idea... because it was both Jake and Villy doing the bargaining.
That’s also why Jake knew no one could stop the Divine Bargain once it had been initiated. Doing so would require whoever tried to overcome not only the aspects of Jake part of the skill but also those belonging to the Viper.
Jake, realizing he had marveled at his own new skill for a bit too long, stopped fucking around and retreated away from the Planetary Core as he also began to enter stealth once more. What he’d just done would surely have notified Ell’Hakan that shit was going down, and it was only a question of time before there would be some kind of response.
Now, Jake was fully aware that deep underground was a shitty place to fight for him, but if that was the only thing he could reasonably get, he would take it. He also considered for a moment if he should pull out his special Eternal Hunger arrow here and now but stopped himself.
If Ell’Hakan was the one coming, he would more than likely do so through the Prima Vessel. If that was the case, he would have to leave it out of its one exit, yes, but he’d also be incredibly close to an impenetrable barrier leading into an indestructible system-made vessel with teleportation features inside.
All of that is to say, Ell’Hakan had a good chance to avoid the arrow, and even if Jake hit, if it failed to end the former Chosen in an instant, the nahoom would have an easy escape path. And to be clear, Jake didn’t believe the Eternal Hunger arrow was enough to kill him in one go, especially not after the Usurper Ritual Jake suspected him of having gone through. Just like how Jake had Moment of the Primal Hunter, he suspected Ell’Hakan to have a similar survival skill.
No, it would be far better to bait the other Chosen into a long-drawn fight before Jake would unleash his real trump cards. Also... perhaps it was just Jake’s vanity speaking, but he didn’t want it to be over too quickly.
Jake didn’t like Ell’Hakan and wanted him dead, yes, but he also recognized the guy was the number two of their generation. He was a supreme genius in his own right, and Jake simply wouldn’t have the opportunity to fight many of his kind. The duel with the Sword Saint was still a core memory for Jake, and it had been an invaluable opportunity.
Hopefully, Ell’Hakan would help push Jake even further.
As Jake was thinking about all these things, something finally happened. Space began to ripple violently, and just below the Planetary Pylon, the large Prima Vessel teleported into the core room. The large metal vessel looked kind of small, considering the massive size of the core room that would serve as the initial battleground of what was to come.
Preparing himself, Jake stood near a tunnel leading out of the core room with his stealth skill active. Taking out an arrow, Jake nocked it as the stealth field appeared all around him, masking the energies of his charging Arcane Powershot.
He slowly charged the arrow so he could keep it ready for longer as he patiently waited. He knew it didn’t take long to exit the vessel, yet as the seconds passed, he got more and more confused as nothing happened. Had Ell’Hakan brought more people with him? Were they strategizing inside? Waiting for him to go in or something? Jake could only look outside the Prima Vessel due to his sphere, so they shouldn’t be able to see what happened in the outside world... so why the delay? To figure it out, he released a Pulse of Perception, and through it, he saw someone standing right there at the exit, waiting.
More than a minute passed before Jake clicked his tongue and stopped charging his arrow to not put a strain on his body before the fight even began... and only a second after he lowered his bow, movement was seen as a single figure stepped out of the Prima Vessel, his voice echoing.
“Goodness, you gotta learn how to suppress that killing intent of yours... it’s quite an overpowering sensation,” Ell’Hakan said as he turned and looked directly at where Jake was in stealth. “You should know that even if you can hide your body and energies, you cannot hide your emotions.”
Jake’s stealth was dispelled as he still stood with his lowered bow and looked down at the former Chosen, now Usurper.
“You went through with your own Usurper Ritual, huh? Stole my idea?” Jake said in a semi-joking tone.
“Great minds think alike, isn’t that what they say? Gotta be ready for the worst-case scenario in all situations, especially when that scenario is the most probable outcome,” Ell’Hakan said in his usual calm tone, more or less admitting he’d expected Yip of Yore to lose.
“And people call me a heretic, yet here you are, actively plotting against your Patron,” Jake scoffed, shaking his head.
“I’m no heretic, and I never was. I believed in Yip of Yore up until the second he died, at which point I inherited his will and power. My so-called betrayal only came after his demise, at which point, can we really call it a betrayal?” Ell’Hakan said, seemingly wanting to start a fight about semantics.
Jake kept looking at Ell’Hakan as he felt for any changes to his emotional spectrum as they spoke, but so far he detected nothing... which was both comforting and concerning. Comforting because it indicated that while he could detect emotions from quite far away, his range to manipulate them remained limited. Concerning because it was also possible that his assessment was entirely incorrect, and Ell’Hakan had just gotten so good at fucking with emotions that Jake couldn’t detect it even while actively trying to.
“I will say I’m surprised you showed up alone. Well, unless you’re hiding an army within the vessel, that is,” Jake said, partly to probe if he was actually alone or had help coming.
“Sadly, my most reliable allies are rather preoccupied elsewhere, and of those I could bring, I believe they wouldn’t be of much help. As we get stronger and stronger, the gaps between the average and the pinnacle only keep expanding. I find it rather envious that you have such truly reliable allies at your side who can be useful, even when it’s in fights at the pinnacle,” Ell’Hakan said, his voice sounding genuine as he continued.
“It’s rather funny... before I came here, I spoke with the Augur. Your friend. He advised me to avoid fighting you and just leave everything behind for a fresh start in another universe. I considered it quite extensively, and even after I made my choice to come here, doubt still lingered... but after seeing you now, I know for sure,” Ell’Hakan said, tiling his head and looking at Jake with a smile. “I feel your hatred. Your grudge. And it only confirms that neither of us will have peace before the other is dead.”
“That may be one area where we’re actually in complete agreement,” Jake answered, and without further ado, whipped up his bow and loosed an arrow toward the nahoom below.
Ell’Hakan responded by instantly summoning a trident, striking the arrow with it as an explosion of arcane energy erupted, the blast going away from the nahoom. Ell’Hakan didn’t say anything more as he knew that, for now, the time for words was over, and the time to see if they were truly worthy of being called rivals had come.
Comments
Talmadge Hires
And only 3 for yip vs villy
ShreddedShark
Elchicken is crazy XD I would assume not, but it is possible *shrug*
Khumo Mononyane
It was enjoyable
Maou Razonica
Does Elchicken know the exact locations of people through his emotion thing?
Rachel Clements
TYFTC!
dash w
Thank you for the chapie
Khumo Mononyane
Yea I'm gonna hate reading this fight but boy will I also enjoy it when it ends
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Chloe
Get em Jake. 10 chapters. Woo. Tyftc
Azayrian105
You called it. Damn did you call it.
Micah Molina
That's assuming the object that the man picked up wasn't the claw. Whatever he picked up turned into a heart shape. So it was either the claw or something else, was ambiguous.
King Nereus
He didn’t really heed the warning, but he is still as prepared as he could be at this point in time. He didn’t slack off and continued to grow while he waited for this moment. Did he need to rush in? No, of course not, but he doesn’t really know how EH’s growth trajectory will change post-ursurption and combined with his overconfidence he believes right now is the best time.
King Nereus
Thanks!
Sargon Yami
Moment was creatrd by his bloodline
Sargon Yami
The viper thinks about his skill and considers it a transcendet skill (pov chapter sorry don't remember the number) and it slows down time and he does not know how. It uses no resource or magic.
Mat
Him being complacent makes me think that this fight won't be one sided as the comment section thinks it will be and the possibility of EH walking away from this one. SS has warned him, EH is both a powerful warrior, schemer and manipulator, yet Jake has not heed these warnings.
Steven Ramey
I can't wait to see Villy's reaction to Jakes new skill!
King Nereus
My point was the Viper may (or maybe not?) have been able to pick a bloodline that synergizes with his transcendent skill (I’m still not sure what that skill actually is), but Jake already has a bloodline, so he can’t acquire one that synergizes. I didn’t remember reading that moment was transcendent, I always saw it as being about Jake’s perception, nothing to do with stopping or slowing time itself. Plus transcendent skills are not designated as anything by the system, are they? Isn’t that what makes them transcendent skills? If that’s the case, moment can’t be a transcendent skill. This primeval origins stuff could be a half step towards one though, there isn’t currently a high cost or backlash for using moment nor Jake juice, and isn’t that another criteria for transcendent skills? The idea being they are so overpowered they only get used sparingly due to price. You could argue that the Jake juice takes time to build up but there no backlash or anything, so I’m not convinced.
Mat
I am with Allan with exception of the involvement of the Child of Loss. That thing is power by faith in EH so will likely co-operate with him. Also EH surviving is highly likely. From a narrative point of view, his has been the driver for Jake to take control of his planet, his galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy seat of the exalted prima, so him still being a potential threat down the line will always make Jake grow in areas which is personal has zero interest in. Secondly we know that from William Yip's path fit EH like a glove and he has just Usurper the god. So they is a lot to narrate as we did not get much from Yip outside Altius rivalry.
Asher Mack
The guy writes so many words per week I forgive the small errors. You are correct though.
Asher Mack
Depends on if he does a POV switcheroo or two. There’s a chance we get a Miranda or Villy or Order update for one or two chapters. If not, I don’t think fight will be more than 3 chapters unless Jake reaaallllyyy decided to drag it out.
NovaZero
Bright Elf
Chase Burton
Tftc!
Deborah martins
"and without further ago,"? Ado?
William WIlson
Nah there's so much expectations of a cliffhanger my one comment won't jinx it.
SqrlyGrly
Now you've ruined it. It will be the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers.
brjenness
Nope. If he thought he could die, El would have ran.
brjenness
Arnold?
Arieh Sochaczevski
Performing early is not a good sign.
William WIlson
Am I the only one thinking we don't get a cliffhanger this Friday? Villy vs Yip was only like 4 parts and we still have 3 days.
SciFi Fan
And so its starts! Lets go Jake! Thank you for the chapter!
William WIlson
Nah your forgetting the demon lord ritual Jake performed. Not only making it clear he'd gladly do a ritual on commission but that he can effect other races besides animal and true royals
William WIlson
It's explained. Jake already created a transcendent skill in the tutorial but because it was basically his Bloodline creating it the system turned it into a skill. Moment of the Primal Hunter. It's also heavily implied that the system will do this again.
Hunter
Did this chapter make anyone else kinda like EH?
Hunter
This whole conflict will be wrapped up by next week at the latest. Love that the conflict between Yip and Villy was drawn out while the conclusion of Jake and EH was so sudden.
William WIlson
We know the Fallen King absorbed some desolation and that's why he couldn't enter sandy and escape. Personally I think Jake will find that claw and using both his mask and the claw recreate the Fallen King of desolation.
William WIlson
Can't be Eversmile because we are still in a system event and gods can't enter 93rd universe until after.
Lynderyn
Friday cliff going to be mid fight or negotiation/reward do you reckon?
Ty Cooper
Sylphie had him put it back on
MrCynical
Y'all aren't paying attention. They've been able to make contact, but almost always with rituals. The galaxy isn't open and Jake had to explain everything because the viper couldn't watch.
kingofshibainu
The Viper and Yip had a fight of schemes. This fight is being built up as just straight forward and Elkie is being drawn into Jake's pace/path without knowing it. Jake wins!
David W. Baijense
He met with him on Valhals world for a bit but no details were forthcoming for what had happened during that time
Evander
Am I the only one getting prince of tennis or Hikaru no go vibes from the name of this chapter?
KenTX325
I think EHs best weapon would be to act like the devil and tempt you into self destructive behavior.
Landon Tucker
iirc he picked up an ivory claw giving off the energy of desolation implying by the fallen king had absorbed desolation before he died
Sargon Yami
Viper quote: the way to the top is not a race but a marathon
Sargon Yami
We also don't know if he got his bloodline after creating the transcendet skill or before
Sargon Yami
Moment of primal hunter is a semi-transcendet skill already. That one slows down time in a universe just because. It is not classed as one because of the link to his bloodline. Bloodlines make it harder to get transcendet skills and for jack it should be even worse based on how his bloodline influences wverything he does. It even protects him against other bloodlines like els (first meeting).
Allan
Firstly, the Jake is fully healed by now. Secondly, an ursuper ritual isn’t strong enough or capable of taking a transcendence even if Yip tried to gift it. Ultimately, the transcendence is not a part of Yop’s ‘path’ even if it was a vital part of his skill set. Though EH might’ve very well gained a similar legacy skill. Also because of scales and the child of loss being shit at fighting. I think that it’ll harm Cheeto far more than Jake if it does intervene.
Sargon Yami
His powers are based of his legend. Galaxy child an all. Fire, sunlight and firechains from stars and space teleport thing well from space. Maybe some earth magic as well
brjenness
the scientific curiosity has me thinking eversmile
Micah Molina
Yea it's very interesting. Obviously a future plot line. I'm guessing someone from the Dao sect, Void gods or an unknown from Earth. After all, there were only so many people who knew about the battle left alone what planet it happened on. I guess someone from the Holy Church too.
Michael Ferguson
Jake has a skill that blocks his death from for sight. They could also both end up as undead or changed in some other ways that alter their true souls. Vampires are one example.
Razeel Nightfall
If drawn out correctly, we might be looking at the December cliffhanger.
brjenness
looks like I wasn't remembering it correctly. mystery man picked up the desolation child
brjenness
thanks
Micah Molina
I think it' ch 997
NovaZero
The 🧱
brjenness
lol...I'm wanting to read it again, but not finding it
NovaZero
Yup.
brjenness
anybody remember where the bit about something grabbing the remains of the fallen king was?
brjenness
that's what I like about villy. "what the heck? why is he doing that. hey dusk, come check this out."
brjenness
if I rem correctly...don't most hot shots fail and only the incredibly stubborn make it to godhood regardless of performance early.
Rob Lyon
But remember the viper got his transcendent skill first and then acquired his bloodline in a system event later once he became a God
C Gillan
My predictions is battle interrupt by loss. Team up(either them against it or it and cheato against jake) then ethier bacl stab or stalemate before eh dies to loss or Jake.
Noel Sanderson
probably some cliffhanger on friday :D
Anna Esswein
encasing and wrapping themselves around the core like were they constrictors. Should it be like they were constrictors.
Deborah martins
I predict either he kills him and the Viper revives him or he relinquish the planet and the ritual starts immediately before he dies.
King Nereus
Neither can really go full out near the core like this, they will have to take it outside for that. Jake needs space and EH needs sun and moon, right? Re the bloodline / transcendent power opposing each other. You could argue that the other way, from Villy’s perspective his transcendent power he used on Jake synergizes perfectly with his bloodline memory power. No matter from what frame of reference you choose, the end result is they balance each other out and that seems a pretty powerful combination, but you don’t really have a lot of opportunity to control the costs for things like this so you get what you get.
King Nereus
I am also starting to suspect a setup to end this in some sort of stalemate or draw. It would be good in a way to explore a little about what EH actually got from the usurpation of YoY, but we don’t really NEED that narratively I don’t think, unless the plan is to keep EH around forever as a thorn constantly. I would like to see this all end and move on to a new thing, but nothing has really been setup yet that we can move on toward in the near future except the next phase of the prima event.
Clint
Would love to see that. Especially if another god or gods happen to be with him -- the Hydra or the Ladies perhaps. Could prompt an interesting discussion about Jake, too.
Jake Atwood
Why can’t it be related to his blood line? Villy has a transcendent skill that directly opposes his bloodline. I don’t see why it can’t be related to his bloodline?
Clint
EH doesn't really have a good path to the pinnacle now, though. His "conquer Earth (or the Milky Way)" gambit failed; his "win Nevermore" too; tying his fate to Yip did not go as planned; and now he's losing his home base. He still could survive and forge a new path, but running away to start over is definitely the smart move.
Clint
Not to the same extent. Could definitely see some skill upgrades, though. Perhaps Moment will trigger when EH is trying to escape? Or Gaze will grow into a domain-like attack, pulling their fight into the soulspace? If he really does get excited and pull out the God Mode there's no way EH puts up any kind of fight.
Hayden Leech
I hope this is a SS vs Primal hunter level fight like we saw in book 5
Ken VanCamp
I hope for Jake that is not true. He did set up the ritual, but his goal has always been to fight the strongest foe, not weaken it to win. Now if the ritual kicks in and allows Villy to give Jake the YoY records he saved for Jake, as a trade for the planetary core, that would be a twist to empower Jake and even the playing field post YoY becoming a usurper.
KenTX325
Looking back at the fight with SS in book 8 it looks like EH can teleport, use space magic, Turn to flame to avoid damage, flame chains, waves of flame based on sunlight, write stories to form legends, and BS stories with emotional manipulation.
Renn
If that happened his planet with all his fanatics that gives him a lot of his power would be uninhabitable from the bargain, and his path would basically be crippled. In that case, he would not be able to Rival him again anyway, so it would make no sense narratively
Frost1005
Tftc
BumAssBumAss
I agree with inkaral. I'm tired of villains seemingly always getting away in stories. at several hundred chapters later, they are just annoying and add nothing other than filler. EH has to die. It is Jake's path. With the planetary pylon being given away to villy, I doubt that the prima vessel will stay preventing eh from escaping using the system event at least.
Matthew Lemon
Amen🙏
Nick O'Gara
No mask, Jake left it in the lodge after the fall of the fallen king.
Stephen Heng
How bad of a cliff hanger are we getting this Friday? Lol. I can already feel it.
Johnny
😂 Canada can go too
Jose Reyna
TFTC
inkaral
I really hope not. I want this orange bastard gone and out of the story at this point. He's been around as an annoying antagonist for way too long.
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter 🙂
Ajw
Tftc, My current prediction is Jake will win the fight but be unable to kill EH because of the damage he accidently did to his own soul awhile back and EH will somehow find a way to escape because of it. EH is currently at the pinnacle of his power. Maybe even gaining the transcendence skill of yip yore. And Jake is still suffering the backlash from his mistake, it would be fitting that the first time he is truly unable to complete his set out goal is his own fault. Another factor is the child of loss who seems to have been heavily effected by EH's bloodline and EH currently feels even with his usurped path that he will eventually be outpaced by Jake. If the child of loss interferes in the fight I believe if EH has gained part of yip yores transcendence he might use it to gain the records of divinity and desolation that it holds. Thus even if he loses, his path will become greater for it and he will be able to fight more equally with Jake in the future. I do believe the planet will still be destroyed and EH's foothold in the current universe will be vastly diminished. So if he does survive he probably won't show up again any time soon.
Lawrence Dillon
Planetary is steep but we can offer up france
Cnewton84
Wondering if this is the fight that will push Jake to make his own transcendent skill. Since it cannot be related to his bloodline, it could be alchemy related, similar to the malefic vipers skill. Either way, this should be an insanely good fight, and I hope we get to see both go full out, it’s been awhile since Jake has really had to push his limits in a one on one fight.
Endern
We can only make offerings (which we already do), bargaining is outside of our means.
Blissfull Wulf
It'll probably require a planetary sacrifice.
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Ty Cooper
Lol you are probably right. We won't find out what Arnold did for Jake till Monday when EH tries to run away.
Ty Cooper
He just asked if arnold could do something for him. He didn't say what though. I am not sure if he asked if he could send him to EH's planet or if he asked if Arnold could produce a void sphere or something similar.
Doug
I think it will cost Jake a lot to win. His biggest fights always do. Whether he stretches himself too far and damages his soul again if it’s not fully healed, or he uses a lot (or all) of his Jake Juice to go full feral primal like with Valdy.
Ty Cooper
I don't know if he will be pushed to the level of the Valdy fight, pushed as hard as the SS, maybe.
Doug
We haven’t seen that scene. People are making an assumption based on what Jake and Arnold talked about before he went to the Valhal planet, and then the fact that Arnold showed up on that planet
Ty Cooper
He is hoping EH pushes him hard and to get improvements on the level of their spar
Doug
I assume they mean he can’t use it in its normal katar form, because it’s wrapped inside of his new arrow skill that took him multiple days to make
Matt Spratte
Tis truly the only way too go lol
Darryl Williams
I think he dies but the Holy Church brings him back to life
Doug
I read Jacob’s message not as them both dying, but as neither of them winning. AKA one of them running when they realize they are about to die.
NovaZero
Or for that to be his Sin Clone
Vega
It’s gotta be a good fight. That’s the only way he’ll progress well, he’s gotta have challenging fights to grow. Although I do feel Jake’s getting a little complacent, what with him getting insulted when the Sword Saint expressed doubts that it would be such a clean cut victory / tried to tell him not to take victory for granted
NovaZero
I think of it as round about insult. That the most he'll ever contribute to society is some seed.
Lawrence Dillon
Can we make some sort of sacrifice to get the rest of this weeks chapters now?
Arieh Sochaczevski
Unless you assume that he *knows* Jake will kill EH. If Jacob knows that, or is proceeding on that assumption, then his advice is justifiable. All other options lean to EH dead *and* the church loosing out on his bloodline.
Palmer Evans
Anyone think Jake has to use his Bloodline God-mode against Cheeto to end it like he did against Valdemar?
Ryan Linus
Can someone tell me what chapter he got something from Arnold? A few comments mention this and I don’t recall it.
Mrburns93
Oh and the valhal planet because they wanted to make it harder for villy to reach Jake. The universe being open is easily proven by sylphy asking stormild about villys power a few chapters back.
MarineDebris
Yup
Jonathan Lees
Friday ends with either the ritual going off or him using whatever Arnold gave him. Monday wrap up. Man this is gonna be good either way.
GrimeyPu
My guess is when Cheeto witnesses the planetary sacrifice in full effect is when Jake pulls out his trump card and ends the fight. I do wonder what Cheeto boy got in the bag though, how big is the gap between the best and 2nd
Brian Mcglinchey
Why can't he use eternal hunger?
Phasmatic7
Thankies zogie
Ty Cooper
He and Duskleaf definitely had a bet going. Just they both might have lost due to the equal parts involved in bargains. My guess is that Villy bet Jake would sacrifice it to himself and Duskleaf bet he would sacrifice it to Villy or Eternal Hunger
Ty Cooper
Right. He is in such a better position. I forget how much that would have handicapped Jake if they were at equal level or worse EH was lower level than him. Glad Jake is smirking behind the mask feeling the bonuses kicking in.
Ty Cooper
Lol that is why he will pull out the beat down pole tto show him how he really feels.
Ty Cooper
And that is when the arrow comes out to finish him. Fear gaze to stop him in his tracks. It will be a good Monday chapter. Lol
Ty Cooper
Maybe it is something like a system contract but on a divine level. Like how Villy mentioned karmic debt when betting with Minaga.
adastra astra
this
Mat
Is Jake emotions already being manipulated? Why reminiscing about a fight he lost? Also Jacob offers explains why you can’t reach the pinnacle following advice of an Augur and divinations. From being the one of the most talent initiates, leaderboard era pinnacle, chosen of pinnacle god to being the Usurper of a top tier path, his advice is “be a priced stallion?”
Michael mann
I have a feeling that EH will start strong, and then the divine bargain will fuck with the planet, and there will be knock on effects to his legend and then his skills. So a big debuff right when Jake goes full Primal Feral like when he fought the King in the tutorial
Mrburns93
That'll be the day Jake gets pressured and it may even look like he might die. Only for Mondays chapter to contain bloodline dues ex machina
Olivia Rutherford
I was so excited to wake up this morning and go get my Starbucks and read this chapter! I'm on the edge of my seat and I can't wait for the rest of the week!
CamChains
tftc
Rewdan
I don’t have that level of patience, I need it all NOW
Ty Cooper
Lol you forget cliffhanger Fridays
TyranT-Rex
Yeah I'm excited for that too. So many possibilities for other enemies in the other galaxies. There could be plenty of people who didn't go to nevermore bbecause it didn't fit their path, but they are still crazy strong.
TyranT-Rex
I think EH will try to run but then Jake will use the Voidshpere I'm assuming he got from Arnold.
TyranT-Rex
I hope the start of next chapter is Villy's POV when Jake activates the skill. The small pause give me hope that it was villy looking at the notification trying to figure out what the hell Jake is up to before just going along with to see what happens.
Jason
Well, at the least, when EH was thinking about things in this chapter, that didn't enter into it, only his OWN bloodline's value. He doesn't think much about other people having any value. As for the Harbinger thing, I think both the meeting after the Chosen ceremony (with the Automata and the Beasts) and what he did with the Devil would be increasing people's interest. They don't need Jake to become a god, but they do need him to do some stuff for them before his demise.
NovaZero
I want Cheeto to feel Jake's frustration and misjudge it as if Jake is struggling. Only for Jake to skulk about Cheeto being so weak that even his bonuses won't kick in.
BumAssBumAss
I disagree that EH doesn't understand. Sure they will be pissed, but in the end, both EH and Jake are mortals. God level factions don't really expect either of them to live/reach godhood. They have seen too many geniuses die before doing so. The only one who would be really pissed off are the endless empire because that's how much value Jake has despite being mortal.
Jacob Conway
🙏Please Villy oh god of slithery fellers and drinks that make you sick, don’t let EH get away from your chosen. By your malefic name, Amen.🙏
Dallin S
Their universe is open now since they completed their event. The only planet that was locked down was Jake’s due to Miranda. The next part of the primary event is when they are in B tier. So we should be able to have Villy see this all going down
John Looney
He might be able to observe from his power in the divine bargain with his partial omniscience skill
Samuel Nelson
Oh, popcorn and a viewing party is definitely involved.
Mrburns93
Seeing as how this is Tuesdays chapter that gives us minimum 3 chapters of ass kicking.
Steven Tuttle
i honestly see that being something that happens after that spuw about back up plans he will do his best to run if he is about to die
fala
Can we get William 2.0
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
Kevin Watson
I'm assuming its something else, potentially like some extraordinarily low level divinity, if only because Jake knows what it feels like to have his Juice extracted, and he didn’t really know what was being pulled from him this time
MrCynical
Nah. I think he's going to die. Because if he escaped it'd have to be to another universe for protection and he'd be out of the prima competition anyway. Plus I likely to be competition for prima primacy after being confirmed alive.
kinglemur
Fuck yeah Jake it’s time to obliterate Ell’hakan
A Flashy BR
Exactly what I am doing
MrCynical
Viper can't watch, he's blocked out until the event ends. Just like everyone else was blocked out while he and yip were in the void space. Nice little mirroring there. Though I'm curious if the divine bargain skill will activate during their fight.
AfroMocha
Hahahha amazing
Roy
It's gonna be a good one. just like the villy vs yip fight, I'm gonna wait a week or so and pick it back up to avoid pulling my hair out in suspense
One Winged Angel
?
Kyler
Ritual will activate on Friday
Jordan Mazza
It sounds like Jake had to use some Jake Juice when activating the ritual, wonder if that will affect his fighting capabilities and his "he's about to die" trigger like he did in Nevermore
Andromeda Adams
Tyftc! I wonder if EH will run, right before he loses?
Bruce Sheplan
“but he also recognized the guy was the number two” I dont think this was an intended pun, but I also think of EH as a number two…
Juozapas
realy nice
KenTX325
A little frustrating as we still don’t know what the bargain does and the fight barely started. I assume he can’t use eternal hunger, until he uses his super arrow.
Indigo
The funny thing is that cheeto is probably stronger than jake but that just makes it easier for Jake to kill him That might be what Jacob was talking about when he said el didn't understand jake
Dan Pangione
More like years and 12 books.
TimeDrawsNigh
I get a feeling that if EH doesn’t die here he will somehow escape and do what Jacob suggested and flee to another universe once the event ends.
Navdeep Kumar
I just want to see the vipers reaction to it all.... I am sure it will be crazy... Not to mention snappy and duskleaf
A. B. Edwards
I feel so sorry for El'Hakkan. This will be a good fight but he has no chance. Jake is a hunter and has been forced to play leader, politics, scheming and more because of this guy the last few months, maybe years. He has been a thorn in Jake's side he can finally remove. And Jake is itchy, he has not gotten to hunt a good target for a long while. And he is likely really, really pissed. What I would love is a scene where Hakkan tries to manipulate Jake and then the emotions are so overpowering it makes his brain bleed. Kind of like when he tried to read Minaga's emotions.
TKOva
LFGGGG
TimeDrawsNigh
Adieu means “goodbye” whereas ado means fuss, concern, or time wasted on trivial matters. So “without further ado” is “without fuss”
Michael Ferguson
I think EH might have been willing to run without the talk with Jacob. But Jacob also implied that they will both die in this fight. This is going to be awesome.
Joel Lindqvist
Auto correct aint kind to you 💀
David Proctor
Jake about to eat a family sized bag of cheeto
Matthias
tftc
Justin Moen
My man, seriously in need of a mega chapter dump! Just drop like 20 chapters, early Christmas gift?? Tftc
Jason
I’m predicting he doesn’t die. He has an easy escape route if he wants it, and they’re both in the running for the Prima event, which seems to me a natural place for them to be in conflict.. But the planet is toast. (And EH didn’t even appear to wonder about the very weird and unique thing happening to the Pylon..?)
One Winged Angel
BEAT HIS FUCKING ASS JAKE! I DONT WANT A FIGHT, I WANT A MESSAGE!!!!!
Indigo
Adeu
Frédéric Cantin
Tyftc
Cory Sauls
Finally getting the fight that has been building for months. TFTC!
Ben
I hope the EH arc gets wrapped up here. Story is so good when Jake is exploring can’t wait for him to go to other galaxies with Sandy and co
TimeDrawsNigh
Jake answered, and without further ago, whipped up his bow and loosed an arrow toward the nahoom below. ago -> ado
Jason
EH doesn’t understand the multiversal politics.. a lot of factions will be pissed to lose out on the services of the Harbinger (and will likely put some blame at the feet of the Church)
Psyck0
Chester vs fudd who will win! I feel he's gonna head towards the vessel if he looks like he going to loose after he'll spin the story of the evil chosen sacrificing an innocent planet to the snake god
Valhazstromoz
YEA! Go Jake and put an arrow in his knee! End his adventuring days!!
Darshar Griffonmane
The Clash we've been waiting for, for sooooooooooo long. And in the background..the ritual is ongoing. This shit gonna have nuts in it! tyftc!
Captain Nuclear
I reckon aftermath next mondat
Robert Phipps Jr (Perren d'Wolff)
Nest time on DBZ.... I mean The Primal Hunter
Titaniumtac
retreated away from the Planetary Core---> Planetary Pylon
Doctordirt
Solid
Paulo Furlaneto
TFTC, Orange juice on my table tomorrow.
Exaiter
Fuck that yellow cunt up
Exaiter
Lesssssgoooo
Burkes
Climactic battle of 10 chapters incoming.
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Karim Saadi
Let's fucking go
Unlisted Pokémon Hudson
Now orange fuck will die and this arc can be called a close. Truly the best arc so far.
LongMickeyRicky
Yall think this goes on into next week or ends friday
Den
I agree, Cheeto is the "number two" of his generation
Sailesh Kumar Kumar
Tftc
Dave
TTFC
Thaynian
It’s the final countdown!
Michael Ferguson
Thanks for the chapter.
Grant Anderson
Thanks z
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
Connor
Thanks for the chapter
Levi
Nice
Sean Casey
TYFTC
