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Chapter 1031 - Primal Hunter vs Celestial Child (8)
🕑 Added 2024-11-29 12:28:04 +0000 UTCExplosions and cutting waves of crescent moonlight reshaped the landscape as Jake and Ell’Hakan battled across the planet’s surface, tearing everything up in their path. Most of it was sand, but there were also plenty of massive rocky plains for them to destroy as Jake constantly redirected Ell’Hakan’s blow away from himself and into the environment, with the nahoom not caring in the slightest as he continually released his rain of starlight shards.
Courtesy of the Void Sphere, none of their destruction was reflected in the real world, and neither did they encounter any other living beings as they continued fighting, the fight having taken on its own tempo. Ell’Hakan had slightly powered up once more despite his state seemingly worsening, making him able to constantly put pressure on Jake.
Not that Jake was losing out much as the battle stayed surprisingly equal for a while, with Jake constantly retreating and forcing Ell’Hakan to give chase to avoid Jake pulling out his bow, as while Ell’Hakan had a slight advantage in melee combat, it was the opposite when distance was established.
Jake did wonder a few times if attacking even mattered much, as despite doing a lot of damage, Ell’Hakan seemed to not care in the slightest. In fact, it seemed to almost make him stronger as despite losing another arm and taking multiple injuries, he simply healed everything immediately using his odd starlight energy. Or, well, considering he called himself the Celestial Child, perhaps calling it celestial energy would be more accurate.
However, Jake soon became confident that despite nothing seemingly changing, his attacks did have an effect. He began to notice that the poison still running through Ell’Hakan’s body began to move differently when it sought to attack his vital energy, almost as if it met obstructions or cut-off paths. Moreover, as Jake focused more on the poison in Ell’Hakan’s body using Sense of the Malefic Viper, he began to notice the small cracks.
Not on any armor or weapons, but on Ell’Hakan’s Soulshape, indicating his soul was breaking apart in real-time, and whenever Jake landed a blow, he only sped up the process. Seeing this, Jake even doubted it for a moment as he questioned how Ell’Hakan could remain so damn blasé about everything. If Jake could detect the massive amounts of soul damage going on, so could Ell’Hakan, right?
Because Jake sure as hell noticed how much his forearm hurt every time he moved it, the damage from being grabbed earlier taking annoyingly long to heal. While it wasn’t enough to negatively affect his combat prowess, it was bad enough to make Jake extremely cautious of ever allowing Ell’Hakan to catch him like that again.
To avoid being caught, Jake had also chosen a very specific direction to move in, as the two of them were rapidly moving toward where the largest population of the nahoom had once presided: the capital city.
He planned on using the area to his advantage, as the nahoom really liked building tall towers and large buildings that should help block many of Ell’Hakan’s attacks, while Jake felt confident that these obstacles would instead only lead to more of his arrows hitting as he got more opportunities for tricky curving arrows.
Soon enough, the city appeared as they went over a sand hill, Ell’Hakan shooting a beam of moonlight straight through the sand as it was kicked up everywhere during his pursuit. Jake dodged the beam as he shot an arrow that the nahoom decided to dodge, slowing him down slightly and giving Jake a chance to use a few instances of One Step before his opponent turned into a beam of light and pursued once more.
He appeared in front of Jake as he unleashed an explosion of starlight that Jake purposefully blocked with a barrier of arcane mana to launch himself toward the city. He was ready to be attacked again, but instead, the nahoom began talking while giving pursuit.
“Even now, it stands proud, a beacon of life and a testament to the power of the nahoom in the middle of the desert,” the Celestial Child spoke, turning his attention briefly toward the capital city Jake was nearly at.
“I do find it appropriate for this to be the site of the battle, and I shall bury you here once you’re dead, erecting a monument to serve as a warning and reminder to all who dare try and walk a similar path to yours.”
“Reminder to whom?” Jake yelled back in between using One Step. “How many did you kill of your own kin already? Are there even any alive to build the monument for you?”
“I did not kill my kin. They simply gave their lives to protect this planet. They know that should I fail to slay you, it will mean the end of this world, your very existence a threat to the universe,” the Celestial Child responded calmly. “You also underestimate the nahoom. We are a hardy race, and even if you had succeeded in your plot of destroying the planet, we would have survived through our kin spread throughout the galaxy. Kin that shall return and help rebuild once you have fallen.”
The confidence of the nahoom was almost impressive, and Jake would have had at least an iota of respect if he didn’t know it stemmed from Ell’Hakan mind-fucking himself into oblivion. He truly was utterly delusional, believing everything he said with genuine conviction as if it were the absolute truth.
While that was pretty damn laughable, Jake also recognized how dangerous it was. Ell’Hakan was effectively closer to an elemental or spirit now with his current body, only hanging on due to the constant influx of faith energy and an insane display of Bloodline-fueled Willpower that could truly only come from someone so broken.
Finally entering the capital city proper, Jake instantly used the many tall towers to his advantage. Ell’Hakan followed, but he seemed in less than a rush. In fact, rather than chasing after Jake directly, he instead flew up into the air. Initially, Jake thought he was doing this to keep better track of Jake, but instead of looking downward to where he would be, the nahoom instead stared directly at the sky.
Up there, the twin moons were still glowing brightly, though neither of them had released any attacks for quite a while. Seeing Ell’Hakan stare at them, Jake just shrugged mentally as he shot an arrow toward him, the nahoom at least aware enough of himself to quickly move and block it.
“Impatient... but very well,” Ell’Hakan said as he turned toward Jake. “You are powerful. More powerful than I had expected you to be, even considering I do not believe I underestimated you. Considering the failing state of my vessel, dragging things out needlessly seems ill-advised... so allow me to hurry things along.”
The Celestial Child held out his arms to each side, and from Jake’s perspective, it looked like he held a moon in each hand. The light behind him suddenly intensified, and Jake’s eyes opened wide as he felt a wave of warmth wash over him right as he was blinded.
“Sunrise.”
With a moon in each hand, the Celestial Child looked like he became the sun itself as it rose up behind him, joining the twin moons in the sky, all shining brightly. Jake was instantly assaulted by the heat as it mixed with the coldness of the moonlight from before.
A massive maelstrom of faith energy swirled around the newly formed sun, feeding it some of all the energy Ell’Hakan couldn’t absorb. This skill usage had clearly sped up the nahoom’s demise further, but despite that, this wasn’t a good thing for Jake... far from it.
Rather than this “sunrise” making the sun start by actually being a sunrise, it appeared already mostly risen immediately, the heat it gave off also representing this. Jake’s scales were immediately put under extreme pressure as the heat of the sun began to burn Jake, and despite the sun still not being at its highest point yet, things were already worse than when he’d fought against this skill last time...
Because despite the rising sun, the moons hadn’t gotten any weaker. In fact, it appeared to be quite the opposite.
The moonlight had been changed slightly in nature as the coldness was gone. Even the element of death had disappeared, with both of them entirely replaced with the concept of stillness, said concept having been amplified as the moonlight lost its other properties.
This resulted in Jake’s body not only being burnt, but he also felt himself get slower as the moonlight sought to immobilize him. The Celestial Child had effectively activated a double domain, and right now, the only saving grace was that Jake had a moment to adapt as the Celestial Child didn’t look like he could move freely while keeping the skill ac-
A beam of light appeared in front of Jake as Ell’Hakan appeared, even his physical body now reflecting his rapidly deteriorating soul as white cracks had appeared throughout, revealing glittering starlight inside the fissures in his body. Jake saw these fissures but didn’t have time to consider them more as he desperately moved his katars to block the trident bathed in starlight that swung for him.
Jake was launched back upon impact, the celestial energy searing into his flesh as it penetrated the already weakened scales. His opponent instantly followed up, and because Jake couldn’t move as he wanted due to the moonlight, he failed to fully block as he received a cut to one of his forearms.
He tried to make some distance and make use of the city’s layout, but he was simply too slow now to get away fast enough. Jake was pushed back repeatedly as he tried to minimize injuries, the only harm he did to Ell’Hakan stemming from the few times some of Jake’s toxic blood splurted on him.
Every wound Jake received was infected with the celestial affinity, burning into his soul along with his body, not to mention the fact having his scales broken by the trident strikes made the actual sun also burn him, worsening his injuries.
This can’t go on, Jake thought desperately as he kept being pressured, only getting a minor break after being blasted through a large stone tower, which temporarily gave him cover as it crumbled down around him.
The double domain was too much to deal with, and Jake tried to fight back as he kept resisting it with Pride of the Malefic Viper. However, the skill simply wasn’t strong enough to keep up. While it did allow him to more easily impose his will upon the world around him, Jake still had to actively use it to resist.
Pride allowed him to more easily summon mana into the air all around him, and while he did try to use his arcane affinity to stabilize the space, the combined powers of the sun and moonlight were just too difficult to battle at the same time. Especially while also dealing with a physically more powerful nahoom currently burning his own soul while swinging a star-wrapped trident around.
His only real way to fight back was to try and adapt on the fly to the domain. His scales were admittedly doing a wonderful job, and without them, Jake would have been completely and utterly fucked. The scales did also help analyse all the energy they absorbed, giving Jake some level of insight into the kind of magic he was dealing with, but proper analysis and discovery of a way to counteract it would take long... way too long.
Ell’Hakan exploded through the falling debris of the falling tower, stabbing Jake, who was still trying to deal with the domain. Failing to fully block once more, Jake was sent spinning toward the ground as he smashed through a multi-story house and into the ground, the impact of hitting the house actually hurting as the buildings were constructed by Builders who had strengthened all the materials used significantly.
Getting up quickly, Jake barely teleported away in time, only to be struck in the back half a second later by a beam of starlight blasting him down a long street and through another five houses before he landed on the dusty street once more, rolling several times.
Punching the ground, Jake caused an explosion of arcane energy, launching him upwards with his back blistering and burning from a combination of the beam of starlight and powerful sunlight.
If not for this damn domain... Jake cursed as he was forced to dodge another three ranged attacks, Ell’Hakan closing in again.
Usually, the best way to battle a domain was with one’s own domain... the problem was, Jake didn’t have one. The closest thing he had was Pride, and that wasn’t a real domain skill. It was more of an aura skill than anything else. Domain skills altered the world, while all Jake could do was affect the world just around him by imposing his will, which simply wasn’t enough...
... wait, why wasn’t that enough?
As Jake was once more sent flying through the air, he questioned himself why it wouldn’t be enough? Pride of the Malefic Viper made it easier to control the area all around him, made it easier to summon magic there, and even allowed him to attack anyone within his presence with mental attacks.
Right now, Jake’s presence extended quite far. If he wanted to, he could even make it extend at least dozens of kilometers in every direction, though it likely wouldn’t work to infuse that entire area with mana using Pride. Doing so would also be extremely wasteful, as it all came back to the importance of scope versus intensity.
That’s when Jake got his idea to fight back. Right now, he had his presence extend quite a good distance away from himself to fight any ranged attacks, the skill having proven very useful against the falling star shards, but right now, he didn’t need that.
Jake focused as he slowly retracted his own presence, consolidating it. It shrunk from extending a few hundred meters in every direction to less than a hundred, then fifty, forty, thirty, twenty... Jake kept retracting his presence until it was only in a five or so meter radius all around him.
Right as Ell’Hakan closed in again, trident raised and ready to strike, Jake made his gamble. Activating all his Willpower, Jake focused on Pride of the Malefic Viper as he imposed his will upon the world in his immediate surroundings.
Rather than try to make his own domain, Jake did just the opposite... he willfully expelled any domains. Leaning into the concept of Pride itself, Jake simply didn’t allow any domain to affect the area his presence had already laid its claim on, arrogantly only allowing his own magic to exist there.
Jake felt his mind be strained as he pushed his Willpower further than usual, the double domain fighting back against what Jake was trying to do. Blood began to drip from Jake’s nose as he strained himself too much... but soon, it was replaced with a wave of confidence as he felt his body lighten up and the moonlight’s effect on his body severely lessen, making him know he’d succeeded. The extra Willpower also instantly became useful, Jake instantly feeling he got it as he barely had to even check the notification.
Skill upgraded: [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] --> [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)]
Ell’Hakan’s attack arrived just then, but Jake could move again. He dodged it significantly faster than before, taking the nahoom by surprise as Jake landed a counterattack by stepping forward and quickly jabbing his opponent in the chest.
The Usurper stumbled back and swung to counter, but Jake was faster as he kept pace and landed another stab, dodged the swing, and stabbed one more time for good measure, every attack of his resulting in even more cracks forming across Ell’Hakan’s already rapidly breaking down body and soul.
“Even now, you grow stronger,” the Celestial Child said as he dodged back from one of Jake’s attacks.
“Wouldn’t feel right if you were the only one,” Jake smiled, using his newly improved Pride to manifest magic all around him as hundreds of arcane bolts appeared instantly. At the same time, he also finally consumed a health potion to try and better his current state.
He had taken quite the pummeling, leading to wounds covering his entire body, most of them burning with celestial energy. The vital energy instantly flooded his body and began to heal him, the nahoom in front either not noticing or not caring.
“Perhaps it wouldn’t, and it does prove you are worthy of being recognized as my adversary,” the Celestial Child responded right as the sun above flashed, a massive laser of pure light descending as the nahoom charged again. Jake quickly released his mana bolts, sending them flying in an unpredictable swarm as he dove forward.
Dodging the sunbeam, Jake clashed with Ell’Hakan yet again, the nahoom no longer taken by surprise from Jake successfully nullifying most of the two domains’ effect on him. To clarify, Jake was still burning through mana to resist it, and even then, some of it continued to leak through. The effect was just so much less now, and his scales could handle it for the most part.
As Jake and Ell’Hakan crossed weapons, their magic also met all around them, arcane energy clashing with celestial magic as they rapidly tore through the capital city. Jake occasionally got the opportunity to create distance and use the environment as he had originally planned, but Ell’Hakan was equally quick to adapt as he was rarely taken by surprise.
Somehow, the fight had moved to seeming equal again, almost having turned into a battle of endurance. Jake was burning through his resources quickly to keep up with the stronger Ell’Hakan, while Ell’Hakan was burning through his very existence. Jake had long stopped holding anything back, even using another two Eternal Shadows to dodge while landing solid counterattacks, despite the increasing cost of using the skill consecutively.
Both of them had to know the fight was nearing its end, with Jake only having one burning question in his mind... did the Celestial Child have any more tricks up his sleeve?
Because Jake almost hoped he did... this desire soon to be realized.
Comments
DirePants
Legendary to Legendary? Is a typo or just signifying a half step upgrade?
Rick Arters
I'm super confused... how are we back at the El ka bong fight... like we were passed this months ago.
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
david fulmer
Eversmile already recovered the false gob from the 93rd...so i dont think that tracks
TNT
Nah, you can have multiple transcendences, the First Sage did, and even if he is an outlier it proves it’s possible. Plus it’s heavily hinted that you can make as many transcendences as you want, with the main bottleneck being that each transcendent skill has negative consequences.
Chloe
8 chapters o fighting? Whew. Come on Jake, crunch the cheeto. Tyftc
William WIlson
I'm pretty sure you can only have 1 of each. We know his Transcendent and also know his blood line allows him to hide his Bloodline from other Bloodline holders. I think eversmiles Bloodline has something to do with Karmic connections
Shaibene
Edit the last line, it reads rather "off kilt" honestly, your editor will say the same, not trying to knock you
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
doob
Caught up after like a month straight of reading
Jake Thorpe
Well no we know one of his Transcendence not all of them and we still don't know if he has a bloodline since he can probably hide it
Unlisted Pokémon Hudson
Tbh that’s prob more probable
Dragon
Remember he would only sense negative intent, if it’s an opportunistic attacker (aka they weren’t aggressive when he was beating down ell hakan) they might be aggressive upon seeing jake exit a void sphere covered in serious wounds
Frankie Rose
I love the series, hence why he is the only patreon author I support. But this is also a call for him to develop his writing style. Would it be too far fetched if he did so ?
William WIlson
Nah eternal hunger will eat it.
William WIlson
Nah I think Jake's domain skill has to be almost an internal domain skill which he can then force upon the world. Basically giving himself immunity to all domains yet not requiring as much power
William WIlson
No because we are still in a system event during and integration period for the 93rd. No god not even Eversmile can enter the 93rd universe without using either a Bloodline or Transcendent and considering we know both of Eversmiles he definitely can't.
Ty Cooper
Lol I thought i was on a different author's chat for DOTF. Sorry
Ty Cooper
That was my guess
Keith Douglas
Not if the Void Sphere collapses. The one Yip brought to his ill fated fight with Villly was top tier. This one he's using is not so reliable.
Josh Hackney
I think the person watching was Jacob.
Ty Cooper
Nope he would never do that to his bestest buddy. If anything he would use Desolation on what is left of the body to make sure there is no coming back.
Ty Cooper
Hey this delusional version is sooooo much better than the original cheese turd. In my mind it is so much better because he technically erased the original himself, so crappy that he didnt even like himself. This soul burning elemental version has been pretty cool. Still looking forward to his death though.
Ty Cooper
I have to say I like this delusional version better than the original for sure. Still looking forward to his death for sure though.
Ty Cooper
For the most part. There is some time off christmas to new years. He noted it in author's notes
Ty Cooper
I don't know. Jake sensed the other person but if they were planning something afterwards Jake's instincts would have given him a warning.
Dragon
The god can’t enter his universe right now, but I do agree he will be ambushed leaving the void sphere by the desolate king and need to pop his bloodline ability to restore himself and fight
david fulmer
Anyone else think that Eversmile is going to come in and sweep up the celestial child.....then Jake will have to deal with the celestial child and desolate fake "god" to really drive home the confrontation that Jake will have with the doppelganger.
Jordan Rogers
Are we getting chapters in December?
Jordan Rogers
This has been a well developed story arc, with a very decent fight scene in both yip and villys fightand Jake and el revivedcheeto
Helios
Idk why people aren't enjoying the fight I like that it's taking longer and isn't just Jake killing El Cheeto easily
Michael mann
Not sure which is more entertaining. The fated duel between the pinnacle geniuses of a new universe or the impatient patrons who moan about the fight (that’s been built up to for over a year) takes longer than their attention spans. You pay for early access on a near daily basis, and then complain that it’s taking time to unfold. If you want it in big chunks, wait for the book release.
Spirit Star
I would love to see a domain skill for jake where he uses unstable arcane mana to disrupt an area around him, using his boots and stable arcane mana to stay stable himself, basically its a movement disrupter that doesnt effect jake! Also thank you for the chapter!^^
Unlisted Pokémon Hudson
Still betting on Jake using his Origin ability to destroy Orange Fucks soul
Richard Loveless
I bet that villy gets the planet and everything on it excluding Jake. So he gets the body of EH. I think he sells the body to the holy Church to resurrection it.
AversiveDrop
You are right, but Jake is using a flawed void sphere. Neither him nor Arnold know how long it will last. So it's possible it ends right before the fight ends
Exodus Uno
Should've been "nah I'd hunt"
Jacob Feliciano
"Did the celestial child have any more tricks?" Jake: if he had a few more tricks it'd be a bit difficult. Miranda: but would you lose? Jake: nah I'd arcane powershot
Jacob Feliciano
"OH great and exalted villy! I offer the planet of the celestial child in exchange for some cold beers!"
Sailesh Kumar Kumar
TFTC
Baged
First off, ever since El'deadsoon was introduced, I've hated him with a passion. If his fight with Jake had only lasted five chapters, I personally would feel like I've been cheated out of a satisfying ending. Ten chapters, and my belly would be full. Everything past that is just dessert. Another thing to note is that Zog has pointed out several times over the years that he mostly writes this story for himself. He might listen to what we suggest once in a while, but deep down, I don't think he cares much. Take Nevermore as proof of that claim.
Baged
If its a god grade sphere, then yes. This one is made by Arnold... it has its flaws
Ty Cooper
And next time on Dragon BallZ.
Boomer
I'm with you. I think Big Mushroom fight part 1, 2 and 3 were better.
Ty Cooper
I like your idea of fixing Palate with the bargain
Ty Cooper
Tftc
Rahsheem Reid
I might be mistaken but I thought only one person can exit the void sphere.
ElijahRS
You know what would be wild? If that dude who took the fragment of Desolate Child of Loss came to crash the party, like the Void Sphere breaks after Jake wins, only to see the planet turning desolate. The third party would try and do ‘clean up’, not expecting the Divine Bargain, or the chance of Jake fully unleashing his Bloodline… and also, am I the only one thinking that this Divine Bargain could be how Jake fixes Palate? Cause even Villy didn’t have certainties to fix it, a divine bargain + the set of scales Villy set aside as a ‘treat’ for Jake + full power Primal Hunter bloodline could be enough to break some rules, right? Jacob also didn’t know who would win, just that the Holy Church would lose out, but he couldn’t divine the Desolate Child of Loss after it’s defeat, and he also wouldn’t be able to divine something like Bloodline shenanigans mixed with a divine bargain, so Jake would once again completely destroy any expected outcome if he not only wins but survives any potential intervention from a third party.
Fozzy
With ED'S use of "I" in several statements, I almost expect him, or an aspect of him to become the Child of Desolation, with some time shenanigans.
Bryandbc01
I hope he still at least reads over them. But with the amount of hate, he was getting earlier in the year. I can totally understand that for his own mental health he just ignores the hateful ones.
Andy Swearingen
Didn't moment already activate? Thought it activated right before he used enternal shadow to escape the first sunfall so he could use the eternal hunger arrow
brjenness
No...Don't take him away. Keyboard arrest. Bond set at 20 chapters.
brjenness
Jake looks to his right and see's someone he doesn't know. Who are you? I'm Tom. He turns to Sandy and asks, "who is Tom." Sandy replies, "He's Tom."
brjenness
Jake recovers enough to power up a shot and finish CC.
brjenness
Void bubble ruptures. CC has Jake down and surrounded by his generals. Sandy was returning from a raid and sensed Jake. He stuck his head in and saw jake in trouble. Giant angry worm smashes Generals and spits out SS, Carmen, Sylphie and others. Carmen holds off CC while SS and Sylphie finish off the Nahoom and other generals.
Joshua Kitchen
Prediction: the void sphere will end right during EH’s final move. He will destroy his own capital, and fully break as he sows destruction on what he cherishes. Well, maybe he won’t care, but I still think he’s gonna unintentionally nuke his favorite city, lol
Joshua Kitchen
Could just be that we have a lot of skills and upgrades happening but no real fight to bring it all together and show off what Jake has achieved- eapecially after Nevermore. Plus it’s kind of nice after the more sweeping descriptions and almost conceptual fighting of Villy. I think there’s a hard balance to find in these types of novels with ever increasing power: do you explain every move, with a chapter being the equivalent of a minute real time (like D&D, lol) due to the high speed and complexity, or do you describe the emotions, the twists, and the intents to give the gist of the fight but focus on the grandeur of the fight. So while I agree it’s a bit long, I’m ok with it… except for the cliffhanger weekend aspect of course
Kraede Epoch
Not really a chapter comment; although this fight has given me late night Adult Swim: uncensored DBZ vibes. I expect a Space Ghost joke after every fight scene, like a commercial 🤣. Anyway, love the series as a whole. Daily chapters are the best; these past few weeks have been bad for me but the morning chapters really help me keep going.
Jennifer Leigh
When Jake started his stealth upgrade path, it went from low to high rare before upgrading to epic.
Jennifer Leigh
It kind of feels longer since he's just adding a number.
The lord of chaos
So in an attempt to figure out why this fight is feeling like it is going on for too long I decided to reread the whole build up and fight starting from chapter 1016 which ends with the death of Yip of Yore to this chapter. This is because if I am saying it feels too long I should at least have something to point to. It could be cause I can't wait for the next chapter every day then the weekend that I am feeling like it is longer than it should be. I think the reason is simple. If we compare this fight to another fight you will see. Jake vs the Sword Saint. During all 3 phases of the fight (Pre-Transcendance/Pre-Arcane Limit Shatter/The final bit) there was constant beats. What I call a beat is something happening that would be a must to depict if animated, again using the sword saint vs jake fight as an example, when Miyamoto redirected the ability that came with Jakes bow. Or when he released a sword slash that grew as it flew. Another thing is that fight was constantly swapping between who was in the 'lead'. However EH vs Jake was very simple. They fight a bit in the core and there was no beats mostly since they weren't even using their boosting skills. Things get interesting when they get to the surface with EH doing some impressive things with his sun domain, the fire hydras, giant fire beams from the sky and also summoning a fucking sun. Jake also just instantly dismantling the fire hydra was also a stand out moment. Then EH activates Sunfall and Jake gets blasted into the ground. Clearly this is EH taking the lead and Jake being on the back foot. EH takes an antidote and prepares for stage 3 only for him to get one shot, since him being heavily damages wasn't apparent since he was constantly healing thanks to his domain, this is quite the surprise, it is fine though since EH has some bloodline shenanigans and phase 3 happens anyway. Here is another problem I have noticed. It takes way too long to get back into the swing of the fight. EH's bloodline shenanigans, the weakness of his and Yip's paths, him sacrificing people, William noticing, Jake activating the Void Sphere. It all took way too long, that was basically a chapter and a bit of things happening that weren't the fight. Given that we only had a short time in satisfying fight and given the fact that EH is basically dead after this anyway, his soul can't handle it, also there was a lot more explaining going on in something that should be tense. EH someone comparable to Jake is using a suicide skill to give him a bunch of power but we have time to be told that the moon power EH is using isn't normal moon power etc also Jake has only taken on real wound the would damage to his arm and EH is already on his last legs. People just wanting it to end already makes a lot of sense now there is no tension or excitement. Jake lost his leg, almost his head and that was after him leveling the playing field with a skill upgrade when he fought the Sword Saint. Jake is fighting someone that is more of a genius that was built up for longer, who got a major buff before the fight even happened and he only took one injury while EH is on his last legs.
TyranT-Rex
I think its unlikely but if he does it would be the celestial child but not actually EH.
Rahsheem Reid
Head cannon. The next power up will be his last. I also think villly will be at the end of the end of his system power up
Zach Newman
Upgrades that stay the same rarity are that way because the user finally understands the true meaning of the skill which empowers it but not enough to upgrade it to the next level. It happened with another one of his skills, I think it was his wings when he got the escape skill or touch when he was transmuting the weapons
Johnsmith
Is it possible we’ll see EH return later as a false god like the child of desolation?
Mark Ryane
It's a higher grade of legendary now, 9 stats per level instead of 3.
TwistedVanity
Question what upgrade? It stayed the same. Skill upgraded: [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] --> [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)]
Gwiddion
No the reader wants a epic fight that is awesome to read as a single finished piece since he knows there will be cliffs on any day to day schedule.
Gwiddion
My guess is that villy told Jake he would steam roll yip and that he shouldn't give EH time to consolidate his ursuped power and ho straight for the throat. Also constant cuts to other pov's would detract from the fight 1-2 to give context to scale and set something else up like the small cut to William are fine but more would diminish the fight. It was either let both power up after yips death and get a massive explanation or a huge conclusion on both sides and then lore dumps.
Jake Atwood
He is probably just letting it build up as much as possible
joe schmoe
Jake going to slay em Monday I can feel it. I can't wait to see what the bargain he made for the planet pylon
Meh
When he was finishing him off, there was a mention of his hand going green, which was to activate the poison. Jake used to have a different ability which was mentioned often which places a mark on the oponent. The mark helps with tracking his oponents (which should be mentioned more often than just referring to Jakes perception), marked oponents take a bit of extra damage (which builds over time) and he builds a charge which when activated lights his oponent with arcane lightning like that guy from the home alone movie but in purple (that's how I imagine it)
Zizawah
12 or more books in is when you decide this? That seems really odd
Zizawah
He used the mark to trigger the poison but I believe Zogarth answered on discord that the mark was used but the damage was mitigated by EH power up
Johnny
Yeah it’s crazy, I like that self publishing opened things up for lotsa small time authors, and this is still entertaining, but lots to improve on. It’s so…explicative at times
Niko Tainui
Thanks again for the chap
Phasmatic7
Thankies for the chapie zogie
Thomas Todd
Wasn't the Treasurer Hunt vampire fight at least this long?
Sargon Yami
hope that is within the next 10 Chapters but i doubt it.
Sargon Yami
he regens faster with the mask and he is more efficent because of his legendary arcane skill thing (can't remember the name got it at level 230). And he has a larger mana pool than most that also boasts his mana regen because that is based on the amount of mana one has. but yeah he should start to run out.
Clark Price
Also he's already states that's he not taking suggestions from y'all. At this point these posts are for yourselves, I really don't think he cares
greg belokopitsky
Eternal Hunger must be getting a feast from this fight!
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Meh
I don't get why Jake hasn't used hunters mark yet? Even earlier, Jake never finished people with the malefic viper skill. He keeps fighting and either shoots them dead or activates the mark when they're battered. Instead he landed next to the nahoom and tried to activate poison. And even now he's not activating the mark... did the author forget this skill?
Andrew P
It would be kind of funny if a the Celestial Child was actually a false god birthed by E'H and does actually end up coming back after Jake finishes killing E'H.
Valhazstromoz
Ikr the drums of the hunt haven't even started playing
SmokeJam
So I am wondering why we don't get the peeks at other characters in between, maybe Zog is cooking something up there? I am honestly very curious how the Earth and Order people are handling all this. Jake basically went AWOL in the eyes of many and there was no explanation or resolution before he went off to hunt a guy with the name of a door keeper in Berlin. Or that will be the next week starter chapters before we end the fight next Friday :D
Hunter
The reader only had one burning question on his mind…. Did zogarth have any more tricks up his sleeve to keep this fight going? Because the reader wants EH’s arc finished before Christmas.
SmokeJam
Only the health potion now was mentioned, nothing before. While Jake has an insane mana pool and control over it, I do agree that we are reaching the realm of plot hole with this one, even having his Arcane Boost running since a few chapters now (and it was mentioned he went up to the destructive boost level in between). Compared to other fights it gets difficult to explain logically, especially when we have yet another power up coming on Monday.
Matthew Lemon
Jakes got the THUMPS in his back pocket. Its not even fair in the slightest lmao.
BearHandMan
And again, not complaining or anything, just stating it’s a bit wild he’s still going. Especially since almost every other fight comments on energy conservation, calculating the perfect time for potion management, and even how he regains vital energy, mana, etc. via his various skills and equipment. Really just stating that, to me, without these details, makes it feel like these important factors aren’t considered and makes it hard to quantify all realities Jake must consider.
William Clark
Officer we have a serial cliffhanger-er here! Take him away!
BearHandMan
That’s fair, but that’s still 100k+ souls worth of faith energy. Still a bit ludicrous to match that without any external fuel
Lizy Flore
For your 2), remember that CC only uses about 10% of all the energy, likely even less. For the other points made, I don’t have the answers, but ultimately, Jake is a Hunter. Hunters know how to pace themselves and Jake has been doing that the entire fight, except for the last few chapters when he started not caring anymore.
Frankie Rose
Starting to get tired of the “ telling instead of showing style of this whole book series “.
Jose Reyna
TFTC!!!
Matthew Lemon
Same tbh. I got to like Fight Chapter no. 3 and was like "fuck this ima wait to read it all at once"
Rewdan
Cheers Zogarth
Baggy Smile
The prima was 6 or 7
Rhett Russell
No I think it’s fine as it is saying that eh will soon pull something else out of his sleeve in the next chapter
Ansordia
Yeaaaaaaay... the friday cliff has arrived... atleast next week the fight will finish and we can get a new chapter in Primal Hunter... I wonder when that big bad moon monster will get it's compences... probably atleast a hundred chapters from now if not more.
Ansordia
Doesn't it need to be long though? Like the demon lord was a few chapters and that was a random "nobody" why wouldn't Ellhakan basicly our first advesery not get the same attention ATLEAST if not more?
A. B. Edwards
Tanks for the chapter. And curse you ell hakkan for messing with my emotions to make me dare hope the fight would end today. Friday cliffhangers. Thebworst
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter!
Andy Swearingen
Tytc also might wanna change the pinned post since book 11 is out now zog 😜
BearHandMan
Totally understand, but 1) this chapter is the first one he mentioned taking a potion 2) EH was literally FLOODED with millions of souls, while at the end of their FIRST fight it seemed like Jake was getting pretty damn winded 3) he has what, 200-400k mana to play with? Plus, he still hasn’t fully recovered from the improper use of his Jake juice… All I’m saying is how Jake is maintaining isn’t fully come through in the writing (IMO)
InfernoDroid
Honestly, if this wa written in normal novel chapter lengths all of this would only be 1-2 chapters, but I could also see it being 1 longer chapter if it started when Jake went to EH's planet. It's the daily formatting that makes it feel longer. On a side note, I wish writers that write and upload chapter by chapter on an ongoing basses would have their books more heavily edited when releasing the complete book, as it can feel a bit wrong with how often normal chapters are broken up into smaller chapters to fit a daily schedule instead of a narrative chapter
Alexander C Hyde
The scales did also help analyse all the energy they absorbed, giving Jake some level of insight into the kind of magic he was dealing with, but proper analysis and discovery of a way to counteract it would take (a long time)long... way too long.
SwiftVogel
I personally love it so far
John
Yea but it would be nice to cut to the people at the order or the viper or something. I wanna know what’s going on now that the viper has won.
Trevor Mergen
Thanks ignore the whiners!
Chase Burton
Tftc!
Alejandro Piña
Tft cliff hanger
Admorias
Ah yes the dreaded Friday Cliff, I’m loving the fight Zog. Now I must distract myself with my own hunts in Monster Hunter as my mortal attempt at a time skip
Tommy
Stop complaining or he’ll yell at us. Perfect pacing Zoggy ignore them
NovaZero
Jake's over it. He's hoping the nacho is good only because he wants enough juice from the squeeze.
Brian
Totally agree, nothing is happening, this has gone on too long - it’s just gotten kind of ridiculous. The fight between the Viper and Yip of Yore was done really well…had been optimistic for this one but it’s just never grabbed me really. 2+ weeks of this now…
Jane
I agree. It’s much of the same for me. All the other long ones had more people involved to switch it up and keep me engaged. We only meet EH during the second event not the whole story. YOY was introduced way before. I
JJMand
This is the fight almost the entire series has been leading up to, so it makes sense that it would be quite long. If it was too short it would just feel anticlimactic.
StarWolf
I am bored
StarWolf
Agreed - but he is literally getting paid by the word when this get posted on Amazon, but the entertainment value fades when the fight takes 2 bloody weeks.
sool
Nah, this is the longest so far I think in all the previous chapters. 3-4 chapters, sure. 8? meh....
Cody Robinson
He just upgraded scales with the desolation energy I'd be surprised to see another upgrade so soon.
Klown Keidra
Between Potions, Arcane Boost, Scales converting, and just a lot of resources in the first place, Jake has a lot of time to play with.
Shaibene
By increasing it to top tier legendary, chances are t wont downgrade on his B class evolution
Shaibene
Jake first needs to fight monster on the moon as his first Win against a B grade
Clark Price
That's just how zog writes his big fights. I sort of expected this to be 10-12 chaters
sool
OK, fun fighting but it's growing a bit long in the tooth and boring. 8 chapters is a bit longwinded imho.
Sargon Yami
He needs to force them to do something new, for example absorb and convert the moon/sun energy
Frost1005
Tftc
Shaibene
Loving the fight (another 5 chapters please) but the last sentence doesn't read well at all, "this desire soon to be realized" Jake hoped this desire would soon be realized. Would be a better line
Devillelouch
It has got to be Yip of Yore's legacy/gift vs thump. 9 will be EH bringing out his final trick, 10 being the needed thump. Not sure we needed this and the last chapter. It wasnt bad chapters, just a bit slow paced. We will see how drastic the Yip of Yore gift is.
Shai182
TFTC, though I think it's taking to much time, Meh
Christian Sullivan
Orange man was the main villian for multiple books now and poor Jake doesn't even feel threatened.
BearHandMan
Is anyone wondering how Jake is somehow not running out of energy? EH makes sense since he’s being flooded by faith energy, but kinda nuts he fought EH the first time and was “pretty drained” then carried straight into this even more intense battle as if he was starting fresh
Rick Arters
Wait... they are Nameking! Duking it out in a planets last few minutes in a protracted fight with both sides unveiling power ups?!
jobe matula
yea really didn't see that coming but absolutely perfect for Jake
jobe matula
yea legendary skills have been upgrading within legendary often now.. i think i remember one skill upgrading in the legendary twice before it went to mythical.. if i remember correctly
jobe matula
it's all about the loot lol.🤣
jobe matula
oooh it's getting good now
Jana
It’s not as bad as I feared cliffhanger wise. I expected the last sentence of today to be a system notice of the offering commencing.
Phoenixdrop
Well this is looking to become the longest fight of the series I just hope it can make this all feel satisfying at the end
Andromeda Adams
Tyftc! Dang!!!
Pickled Rick
Nooooo!!! Please be merciful Zog and surprise us with a final chapter before Monday
Logan
Have a great weekend
Sargon Yami
So at least two more chapters and like 8 more for the close of the arc. Then will we pick up the first sage story line again?
Daniel Hamilton
Thanks for the reminder, surprised we haven’t seen an upgrade his scales yet
Chewbacchus
Nah, this has happened before. Legendary of the grade before isn't quite the same as legendary of your current grade, and it's not quite mythic tier yet. It's feels a bit like Diablo loot with set gear and legendary gear both being legendary, but with one being superior
Liliumsaccatum97
Hach... See you next year
Gjermund Rogstad
It can be upgraded within the same rarity
Daniel Hamilton
Skill upgraded: [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] --> [Pride of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] shouldn’t that be mythical?
Gavin Wayne Pitcher
nope, rarity upgrades for minir improvements not guarenteed in c grade. likely just a stat change and deacription amended to include domain negation.
NSaaby
Primal Hunter, King of klif hangers
Tommy
TFTC! If EH unleashes some massive damage on Jake, Im thinking that Jake’s bloodline is going to awaken in absolute affront at the sheer arrogance of EH’s bloodline thinking it is stronger. Then administering the biggest bloodline beat down in the history of the multiverse
Kevin Watson
that upgrade was exactly what i was thinking was required, great chapter, always hate the cliff. Also just realized what a reward the end of this fight will be for Jake, insane life or death struggle with a peer who’s also the usurper of a pretty strong god, AND Villy will be finishing this bargain for the planet probably near the end which will also net a reward of some sort. good stuff
David
Once in c grade, skills have more of a range. You could say he had a low or mid tier legendary that has now been upgraded to high or peak tier legendary. Not all improvements to a skill will result in an increase in rank
Steve Shelden
No, skills can upgrade within a “class”. Happened multiple times especially with the most powerful skills.
Trav Cook
Pride upgraded FROM legendary TO legendary? Is there a typo there? Had to read multiple times to check if I missed something…
Rick Delallata
That's a really cool use of Pride. An anti domain has a ton of value. I wonder if he'll be offered a domain skill after this and if it'll still work with this use of Pride
Sam
Still waiting for Scales to upgrade.
Beemoss
Tftc
James Faulkner
Tftc!
Abhishek
Bruh
Despair
Those are the cool small details i like Hail Zogarth
Despair
The dreaded weekend ... despair thanks for the episode , i think the balanced writing meaning not having Jake smash through everything with ease is a great proof to your superb writing skill and patience in building a believable story
Max
Lets Go tftc!
Dave
TFTC happy cliff day everybody
Mohammed Sheekh
Jake hasn't used the core elements of his bloodline yet, to clarify, jakes bloodline has some form of sentience as it didn't deem it necessary to perform yet, while el'hakan is burning through his own soul
Valhazstromoz
I would say Jake's battle manias gonna get him killed one day but ......you know..........PLOT ARMORRRR "jazz hands"
BumAssBumAss
Woo, hope we get more skill upgrades this fight. Maybe even see what's past mythical.
Landon Tucker
We’ve still gotta force a Moment before the fight ends. Ell’hawktuah definitely gonna spit up one more thing.
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pizzadahuttt
Didn't realize till i read the comments
Matthias
Tftc
Noah Mclelland
Nothing like Jake hoping ell cheeto had another trick up his sleeve, otherwise there wouldn't be any fun.
Bastian
On top of that its not JT vs Celestial Child but Primal Hunter vs Celestial Child
Gavin
Its annoying to know we have a CH but good fight so far
mitchell kaiser
Happy Friday everyone! Time for your weekly cliff!
Carter
I tried but clearly don’t possess enough will power because I just start reading. Haha not gonna complain though I just get more excited for the next chapter at this point. 😂
Adevna
Yeah, I checked out three or four chapters ago.
Gordon Bartels
Agreed. As much fun as it is it has gone on for quite a while now.
Paulo Furlaneto
tftc
Andyr98
I just scroll to the end seeing if the fight is over if not I close it and come back the next day I'm not gonna read continues fight chapter day by day I'd be to frustrated especially on fridays
Lizy Flore
Why did I realise only now that the chapter names went from JT vs EH to JT vs Celestial Child ? 😭😭😭 thanks for the chap
Connor
Thanks for the chapter
Cryingwisp
Tyftc
Frédéric Cantin
Tyftc
