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Chapter 973 - A Tough Job To Do
🕑 Added 2024-08-12 11:07:10 +0000 UTCJake seriously sucked at doing his current job. He kept trying to avoid it, only to get hit by the realization that he didn’t really have much of a choice in the matter. As for what his job was that Jake was so god damn horrible at?
To do nothing.
He was not good at doing nothing.
After sleeping for nearly a full day after returning to his lodge, Jake had woken up with his resources mostly restored and his headache not as bad as before. He was still super weak, but he at least felt like he could do some minor tasks. Maybe he could even do a bit of light alchemy experimentation?
Nope.
Jake had tried and was struck by a headache that made it impossible to focus whenever he tried to do anything straining. Next up, he tried his Puzzle Box of the Seeker, and while it wasn’t as straining due to not really using much mana, it still took full concentration and a calm mind to properly work with, and getting intermittent headaches while trying to beat levels wasn’t very productive. Quite the opposite, as failing a level due to a sudden bout of pain after spending a long time progressing only led to frustration, which led to more headaches, which led to more frustration.
Not that he could find anything actually productive to do. His body was weak, so he couldn’t do much with that, and using resources hurt and broke concentration, making any task that took intense concentration borderline impossible.
In the end, he did settle on doing what little he could: read books. Not as fast as he usually could, and he had to stay away from the too-complicated stuff, but at least it made him feel like he wasn’t completely wasting his time and being useless.
After a bit of reading and relaxing, Jake began to feel better. He also got an idea on the second day as he went down to his laboratory beneath the lodge and into the reservoir. There, he found a potential help to his current ailment: the Dewstone of Serenity and the Serene Water.
If anything could help him, it had to be this, right? The Dewstone had even been made to heal someone in the first place, as per the description:
…A small stone created by the combined effort of a group of water nymphs to help heal a close friend…
This was even further echoed by the water the Dewstone helped create:
…This water calms the mind of anyone who consumes it, allowing them to more easily focus while suppressing the effects of most mental afflictions. Continued consumption will help heal minor soul injuries…
Jake definitely didn’t expect this to be some kind of cure, but he did hope it would at least help with the pain. Testing it out, he did discover that the water had a soothing effect, which, even if it wasn’t actually helping him heal faster, would at least make the process more comfortable. In other words, it was pain meds water.
That’s how Jake ended up chilling in a makeshift hot tub of Serene Water he had poured while occasionally drinking a bit from a second container. Being down in the laboratory for a good portion of the day also helped sell one of the many lies Miranda had spread that Jake was busy doing alchemy and was working on some big project.
Days passed with Jake doing nothing productive outside of slowly recovering and reading low-level books. While he despised not being able to do more, it was at least comforting he could see the healing progressing. Quite literally so, as it was shown on his status.
Status
Mana Points (MP): 139,556/199,441 (442,484)
His limited mana poll had gone from a maximum of 198,367 to 199,441, which wasn’t a lot, but it was something. As the worst period of weakness began to wear off, the recovery should also accelerate somewhat. At least, that’s what Eron told him when he talked with Jake over the phone. The healer wanted to go in person, but Miranda believed that would be a bad idea as it would give credence to any rumors that Jake was seriously injured.
In fact, Miranda wanted to limit Jake’s contact with anyone. This was to tell the story that he was too busy, and Jake’s existing reputation as a loner who didn’t like to be disturbed helped him out here. All this was only temporary until Sylphie, Vesperia, and the Fallen King returned to Earth, as there was little doubt the three of them would visit, and the plan was still to have at least one of them remain around Jake for protection during his recovery.
It ended up taking a few more days of Jake suffering through doing fuck-all before he finally got word that Sylphie and Vesperia had returned. To keep up appearances, they would first stop by Miranda before going over to Jake’s place. Sylphie offered to just sneak them over to Jake’s place, but considering Sylphie’s interpretation of the word stealth, it was determined this method was better.
Jake was sitting by the pond looking at the eels swimming around when he felt the two of them enter the valley. He barely had time to turn to look at them as a green ball of feathers flew over and nearly crashed into him.
“Ree!” Sylphie screeched, stopping right in front of Jake, still kicking up a lot of dust and disturbing the surface of the pond, scaring the poor eels to dive deeper.
“Good to see you, too,” Jake smiled as he reached out and gave her some scratches, the bird quickly getting comfortable sitting in his lap.
“What is the current state of your body and soul?” Vesperia asked, getting straight to the point while walking over with hurried steps, clearly trying to keep her usual calm and collected persona up. Spoiler: she wasn’t doing a very good job at that.
“Body is mostly fine; it’s the soul that’s the problem,” Jake shook his head and sighed.
“Ree?”
“The worst period of weakness should be over within the week I hope, while the rest will take a lot longer,” Jake explained. “But, hey, in a week, I shouldn’t be useless anymore, just less useful than before my… unfortunate accident.”
“Is there truly nothing to be done?” Vesperia asked. “The Endless Empire has many methods to help recover more quickly, even from severe soul damage.”
“I don’t doubt the resources or knowledge of the Endless Empire, but the-“
Jake quickly stopped himself as he was about to say that the Malefic Viper had told him he should just wait, but sharing that he had spoken to the Viper at all was kind of precarious, so Jake quickly saved it.
“-healer called Eron told me that natural recovery is the best, and I would lean toward trusting his judgement.”
“I am aware the man has a Bloodline and it quite competent in his own right, but he is still only C-grade,” Vesperia insisted.
“Look, if you have something in mind, I’m not going to outright reject it, but seeing as we’re cut off from the rest of the multiverse during this system event, we don’t have anyone besides C-grades available to do anything,” Jake said, shaking his head. “And of all the C-grade healers I’ve ever met, I would trust Eron’s assessment the most. Doubt he became the Chosen of the Lifesoul Daolord for nothing.”
Vesperia looked uncertain for a few moments before just nodding. “Alright… but if you aren’t fully healed by the time the system event en-“
“I bloody well expect to be,” Jake interrupted her as the notion sent a shiver down his spine, so much so that he didn’t even want her to fully vocalize it. Alright, he didn’t expect to fix Palate, but his soul should at least be good by that time if he fully relaxed, leaving him with only the damaged skill to address.
“But if you’re not, allow me to send a message back and ask for ideas,” Vesperia still insisted, Jake eventually just agreeing to keep the peace.
“Ree?” Sylphie, who had really snuggled herself into Jake’s lap, asked.
“Right, there was also that,” Jake sighed. “Miranda is pretty damn insistent someone should stay around and waste their time here with me doing fuck-all just because I fucked up. Something I don’t feel good about requesting at all…”
Maybe he could argue with Miranda that it really wasn’t needed, so he could avoi-
“It would be best for me to remain by your side,” Vesperia said instantly, even raising a hand. “There are no more planets that need my immediate attention, and as a True Royal, it was never expected of me to be someone taking the frontlines in the first place. My only true connection to this planet is also only Sire, so it would logically make sense that I choose to remain close to you and your home, plus, I promised the other True Royals before leaving I would stick mostly with you. Finally, I do need to focus on my internal Hive and fully rebuilding my Queens’s Guards, so I did, in truth, plan on staying on Earth in the first place.”
“Ree,” Sylphie looked at Vesperia, who had just gotten done spewing off all the reasons to stay she could get off the top of her head.
“I don’t believe that is necessary,” Vesperia argued against Sylphie’s argument.
“Ree.”
“Hm…”
“Ree.”
“An acceptable compromise,” Vesperia agreed with a nod, turning to Jake. “The two of us will stay here until the weakness lingering in your body lessens. Once there is only the long-term damage left to deal with, I will remain on my lonesome. At that time, should an emergency arise, you should be fully capable of defending yourself, correct?”
“Right,” Jake nodded, not a massive fan of not even being included in the discussion, but oh well.
“Then that’s settled,” Vesperia said in a satisfied tone.
“Say… wasn’t the Fallen King with you two?” Jake changed the topic once bodyguard duties were established.
“He chose to stay behind temporarily and will return to Earth at his own pace,” Vesperia said. “From the looks of it, whatever happened to you spilled over and affected him significantly, too, and it appeared like he had some soul damage of his own to heal, though it was far less than you are dealing with.”
“I… see,” Jake sighed, feeling really shitty that his bad decision-making dealt collateral damage to the Unique Lifeform. He had always fully supported the King’s intentions of entirely splitting off from Jake, but before, he hadn’t really seen it as anything with urgency. Now, he hoped the Fallen King would figure out a method sooner rather than later so this wouldn’t even happen again… because Jake was definitely going to mess up again sometime in the future.
Despite how much he fucked up this situation, Jake wouldn’t stop doing risky shit. Risks and rewards would always be intertwined due to how Records and the system worked, and as Villy had said, Jake shouldn’t stop experimenting and taking risks just because of one setback. He should just have at least one extra step of asking himself: “Is this a really moronic thing to do?” before moving forward.
“Worrying over the Unique Lifeform isn’t necessary,” Vesperia tried to comfort Jake. “He shall easily make his way back when he so desires, and even if he was temporarily weakened, there was nothing on that planet even capable of posing a danger.”
“I wasn’t worried about that,” Jake waved her off. He knew the King was strong and even had his trump card if things got too hairy.
The three of them spoke a bit more as the hawk and True Royal got comfortable.
With Sylphie and Vesperia now also there at the lodge, Jake felt like chilling in his hot tub or just reading books all the time would be rude, especially as he hadn’t spent that much time with them recently and had never actually spent that much time around Vesperia, period.
Sylphie also wasn’t the best at doing nothing, and Jake feared that her finding ways to entertain herself would lead to something Miranda would complain about, so he needed some other ways to keep them entertained, at least until Sylphie left. Vesperia could easily keep herself busy working on Hive Queen stuff and her internal world. This left him with something hugely impactful to consider, with potentially the safety of Haven itself at risk:
… what good card games are there for three people? Oh, and it needs to be bird-friendly…
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It was only natural for a beta test to have some problems in the initial stages. However, this time, the test had actually gone above and beyond expectations, enough so to be labeled a full-on success. Yet the beta tester was still left with severe issues that the inventors of the teleporter would take no legal or moral responsibility for as it was solely due to his own actions.
Considering that and how the teleporter had clearly worked the first time around, Arnold was soon ready for his second test subject. After much deliberation of who would be best to send, they landed on someone who would have potentially been even better than Jake to send in the first place. At least if one was talking about going to the red planets and helping them defeat their Prima Guardians.
A man who had a political mind, allowing him to expertly handle the native population and naturally also the power to handle the Prima on his lonesome. Moreover, it was someone with an even more effective and reliable method of returning to Earth should anything go wrong. With the right prep work, that is.
“A good view to capture in this moment in time,” the Sword Saint said as he finished painting the landscape in front of him.
“To seal a snapshot of the concept of time within a painting, allowing you to bypass the usual restrictions placed upon travel through space… it’s an interesting application,” Arnold commented from behind.
“It’s not perfect,” Miyamoto shook his head. “Space still contorts time, which is why I selected a planet not too far away. I am far from confident in traveling across an entire galaxy, at least not without significant assistance.”
“More than the circle?” Arnold inquired further.
“A lot more than a magic circle,” he shook his head, having already prepared the circle as he started painting.
All of this was done to allow the Sword Saint to use his painting to return back to Earth in case of an emergency. Rather than call it teleportation, the Sword Saint instead captured himself and the world around him in a specific moment in time, and through the painting, he could return there. Of course, Miyamoto couldn’t actually turn back time, only his physical location. This was by far his best skill as a painter – a profession he did not use actively as much as he certainly should.
Not to say he didn’t constantly use it while practicing, as it even helped his swordsmanship. The Path he walked was as much about simply swinging a sword as it was about visualizing the world, the concepts he controlled, and the future he envisioned for himself. Painting his thoughts and ideas allowed him to turn them not only tangible but entrench them in his mind, as to paint something, he had to truly be able to imagine it.
“Ultimately, the probability of you needing the painting in the first place isn’t high,” Arnold also pointed out. “The Prima Vessel should still exist on the planet even if they prove hostile, and I’m certain you could use that to return, even if it takes threatening the native population with annihilation should they refuse to assist you.”
“I hope to avoid needless violence,” Miyamoto shook his head.
“Most people do, but their refusal to assist you could easily be classified as a need,” the scientist said, the Sword Saint only able to nod in agreement.
“Certainly so. Now, let us proceed. I do wonder just how well this teleporter of yours will work,” Miyamoto said as they headed toward the teleportation circle, and after going over a few things, he took his place in the center of the circle.
It quickly came to life as Arnold looked down at his tablet. “Ah, minor note. The last tester said the process may feel a bit… rough.”
“It shouldn’t be any problem,” the Sword Saint dismissed the notion… only to regret it a few minutes later as he was reminded of why he had never been a big fan of rollercoasters before the system arrived.
Comments
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Rachel Clements
TYFTC!
Kconraw
Thx for the chapter
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
Baged
look like i was wrong... damn.. was sure Jake did that solo and with the juice...
Deborah martins
Also sultan got the trolls out. It's in book 6 ch 35
Ryan Ulrich
You wrong, Sultan helped them out of the Dungeon
Ryan Ulrich
Does this mean we get a SS story tomorrow?
William WIlson
Nah I think Jake's Transcendent will be resurrection. Like he can bring people back to life but they always come back at a level 0 being and Jake's cost would be some records.
William WIlson
I mean all day grades drop a beast core and we have at least one d grade we got nothing on what he dropped, the mind chief. Maybe Jake can do some fun mind chief soul tree ritual or maybe just refine the core and give it to an eel. That being said Jake's got some good shit in that storage.
Baged
Wow dude, you're way off on your history. Jake first met them and decided not to kill them as they hid in a small cave outside of a war between two races, the first time he entered the dungeon. Then he entered it again, brought them out, and then went back in to confirm that they were no longer there after the dungeon reset. Sultan only had the slave girls and was told not to do it again. The Sultan had nothing to do with the trolls. I don't even know if anyone other than Jake and Best Bird knows they are there, as they are the only ones who have been inside that dungeon, as far as I can remember.
William WIlson
The pond itself isn't soul water just regular water. Jake has a basin in his alchemy lab in which he has a portion made into soul water. The reason these eels have become so strong is simple, the nylon of civilization. These eels which were level 0 when Jake got there have been living maybe 20 feet away from Jake's pylon. This means they enjoy the same benefits all residents of haven enjoy but have gotten these benefits for longer. That not to mention the simple fact that like Jacob explains in book 2 these records are thier original records making them far more impactful. I wouldn't be surprised if one day Jake comes back home to find some c grade eel there to thank him for allowing him and his kind to live in such a powerful place and leech of such a powerful natural treasures.
William WIlson
Sultan brought the trolls out of the dungeon not Jake via a slave contract. The trolls haven't had any direct Jake Juice. They do enjoy the passive aura of Jake Juice by simply living near Jake's pylon like all of havens residents. I'd also like to point out that the entire planet is now benefitting from Jake Juice become he's world leader. I can totally see this prima event leading to a hunting world wonder. Very similar to Nevermore but instead of a massive dungeon it's a massive Forrest.
Cmndprmpt
The image of seeing Miyamoto at Hershey Park or Busch Gardens eating cotton candy and then reluctantly getting on a roller coaster bc his grand daughter coaxed him into it brings me endless joy.
Cmndprmpt
@Stuart Thwaites Your pfp slams btw. Still holding out hope for another game in the future.
Jaydan Man
@John Durrett, Sorry, I mean that while the stomach portion is closed off its a "broken skill" even while the majority of it still works. I think i meant that it will no longer be a malefic viper skill, not that palate wont be palate anymore. I think the solution to fixing it is to adapt it to the primal path fully, which will probably be a long time off.
Peter Smith
Entertaining thought. What was villy's wife's name? I would find it beyond entertaining if her name was Evellynne...
David W. Baijense
He just said beta tester. I don't remember SS having knowledge of it being Jake yet
Deborah martins
I expect the trolls get a better roll when Jake makes his tree. I can totally see a tree blessed by yig with the trolls blessed by nature's attendant.
Jennifer Leigh
The eels are in the pond that the alchemy water is sourced from. The pipes are enchanted to keep them out. I want to know how they went from single digits to D grade. Plus they seem smarter?
Baged
The Trolls are the ones I miss... I think it's really underrated that he took them out of a dungeon. I don't even know if Willy knows about this ability of the Jake juice.
Decibel790
Ooh, more vespy in the near future? Looking forward to that
Liam
poor Miyamoto. it’s not fair to beat up an old man like that
Gavin
Well palate will likely undergo significant change and morph into something.
Zizawah
The one who was going off on the idiot who slaughtered the light-tail monkeys totally ruining the leather and not cleaning up
William WIlson
I might have to check it out.
John Durrett
Yeah, they are down in his full constructed Alchemy space.
John Durrett
There is an anime called "In/Spectre" which has a main story who's characters encounter a Yokai that is a Yip of Yore type creation..and they fight it launching their own narrations which they have to get the masses to adopt in order to counter the creations abilities. Its a very interesting and well animated series.
Phasmatic7
No the soul water is in his basement, they live in the valley no? Normal water.....maybe enhanced with "jakes house" records
John Durrett
Scratching my head. Who was the leather worker?
The 49th Khan
Oddly enough, considering they live in Jake's personal soul water pond that he using as a hot tub, they should be receiving significant records from this. Not to mention that being around Jake let's beings adapt to presence better. Those eels may in fact, one day become epic.
Tommy
Tbh I don’t think it has to be a long checklist. It’s not assessing the riskiness per se, more to assess the impact 1) Will this impact anyone else? 2) is the timing of taking this risk right? Is he doing something that is time critical and will be negatively affected Edit to add: The multiverse is HUGE. There are always gonna be potential things he can do / take part in, especially as he is currently only in C grade.
John Durrett
Ok..someone come up with a checklist. Then go back and apply it to all the crazy shit Jake has done and come up with cool and powerful results. My bet is that all of those things would never be attempted as too risky. Remember that his own bloodline gives him vibes when it feels something is too risky that even it cannot walk away from.
John Durrett
I get the skepticism, I just follow the path of hope for the best, plan for the worst. Human history is filled with endeavors that killed, maimed, damaged those involved in the learning curve. Flying vehicles, motor vehicles, chemistry experiments, medical devices and cures. Frankly if everything Jake did just breezed thru with his Overpowered Bloodline and and Jake juice or Villy guiding his hands - it would not be much for character development. Yeah it sucks to have our Anti-Hero taking a major setback but working thru it is as much fun and discovery than if it hadn't happened. imho
John Durrett
@Jaydan Man - I'm not sure I follow you there. You don't see palate being palate - because Jake cant freely add or remove things from it? The major portion of palette is the safe absorption of "knowledge/records" of a thing inside. Which is currently still active and working. That desolation core is still being slowly dissolved in the now sealed stomach. Either it eventually gets completely dissolved or a future solution presents itself.
John Durrett
Or Doc from Back to the Future with his lab coat and disheveled hair. Both fun.
William WIlson
While true he can always simply invite his family to Haven.
William WIlson
I'm not saying for Zogarth to blast them away in some fake as way, but maybe a story line Yip can't get rid of which is just as true as the one he wants and because of these 2 similar stories Yip gets fucked.
deednam
Honestly i thought so at first but i imagine after nevermore they still probably have some sort of friendship
deednam
I thought he was going to go for a more time oreiented profession like making watches or something
deednam
That would be hilarious but a tad sad to see such a madsive story line of hate to end with ell hakan being blasted off like team rocket by somr gag character
Stuart Thwaites
Daughter and niece. Hawky and Misty might have something to say about Jake adopting their little Sylphy.
AfroMocha
That being said I also feel a bit too close to how the sword Saints transcendent skill works.
AfroMocha
I was thinking more of his transcendent skill would be like him being able to control the mode he goes into as when he fought the king and valdemar
Phasmatic7
One day we'll have an epic eel moment
Phasmatic7
I REMEBER.... IT WAS EELS, the eels are the best
Phasmatic7
Thankies for the chapie zogie! I really like this one but can't member why lol...
Arkenian
The problem is that visiting his family risks disseminating this info to the court of shadows. I think he will want to be a bit more healed before that.
Osamaru Ta
And finally introduce them to the rest of his family.
Owen
Definitely looking forward to this family bonding time! I feel like Slyphie and Vespy have interacted the least among Jake's children so these will be some fun chapters
Kevin
I can’t imagine Jake not visiting his family during this. My family usually south my soul when I’m down.
Kevin
From my understanding Jake is his origin. Jake is the origin of his bloodline and the origin of his bloodline is Jake. To enhance Jake’s origin shouldn’t actually change anything as his bloodline already does that by nature of what it is.
Kevin
I think it’ll probably involve Jake using Jake juice to restore the fallen king to his origin as the king of the forest.
Kevin
He would have to confront Ell’Hakan’s faction to find that out. I doubt some random closed off planet would have much of any information about Ell’Hakan.
Catherine Jones
Jake needs some quality bonding time with his daughters anyway, and we all know he was never going to slow down on his own, so this might just be what he needs most.
Mat
From the demon ritual and his latest incident I think a transcendence that suppress/seal records to the level of the container when Primal Origin energy is used maybe. Issues with this, is that it might not enhance records as intent as per Villy’s explanation on why the demons were idiots.
Ryan Ulrich
Lastly a skills that could temporarily freeze his surroundings as if he was painting a very realistic portrait
Ryan Ulrich
Another would be a stealth skill where he literally just paints over himself to fit his surroundings (camouflage)
Martín Ballesteros Arias
Maybe he subconsciously got competitive and thought "whatever he can endure I'll be able to do as well"
Tommy
Maybe the checklist might be best then?
Ryan Ulrich
Some skills I imagine for him down the line would be a void/rain skill that summons a storm where each raindrop creates a miniature void. The drops would coalesce on the ground into a large puddle effectively creating his ‘Ultimate Canvas’ where he can/do whatever he wants
Mat
That may lead to him exposing some of his secrets that are rather kept to himself. Also he is a guy that moves on instinct not logic so I doubt one mistake out of all the successes he has got by just jumping in, only Villy will approve half the stuff he did. Remember when sort Casper consult on curses
William WIlson
I've had a funny thought. Does everyone remember that crazy conspiracy dude Greg? What if he's got powers similar to Yip of Yore and threw his own believe his wild conspiracy stories are sort of true and he's a major reason why Yip and Ell’Hakan lose.
Bookreader97
I want him to revisit that one leather worker and do a small side quest for her
William WIlson
No Jake advised that the Sword Saint only use magic that complements his swordsmanship. His teleportation threw painting and time seems to fit kinda nicely
Mat
I doubt it will given the King’s knowledge in soul magic. Also remember the whole “on King’s honor” thing.
Colton Horton
Eh, I doubt he would be willing to anything as as mundane as cleaning out his storage space without one of the others consistently nagging him about it. Jake tends to give of 'Severe ADHD teenager' vibes anytime something he isn't directly interested in comes up. Lol
Ryan Ulrich
I thought the SS was giving up painting for his profession? If not that’s awesome, would love to see what other odd skills he can get with it. Anybody have any ideas for sword/pain/time skills?
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
Andromeda Adams
Tyftc. Maybe SS learns some important information about EH. Or, maybe the SS finds out there is a spy around Jake and friends because EH knows Jake is hurt.
William Rossi
Ayy since he can’t really do anything isn’t it the perfect time to go through his necklace and catalogue all his shit? Would love for him to just dump everything at his pond and then have Vesperia and Sylphie doing inventory with him. Would love a chapter or two like that tbh, maybe getting that meat skewer guy to do some pondside barbecue for them. Would be epic. Anyway, thanks for the chapater, looking forward to what the week will bring🫶🏼
Michael
Anyone else think the fallen king's experiment to separate himself from Jake is gonna possibly go bad for jake
Tommy
He should still do the risky shit. Just needs a better system of evaluating how risky something is and checking the impact of doing it, fallout if it goes wrong etc
Tommy
“He should just have at least one extra step of asking himself: “Is this a really moronic thing to do?” before moving forward.” I would argue that he should maybe pick one person (I would choose Arnold) or maybe a different person dependent on the craziness of what he wants to do each time, or closeness of an individual to ask, and ask them not “should I do this” but rather “are there any circumstances or things I haven’t considered”. Just because I feel that if he’d looked at the issues of using Jake Juice energy on Palate from the right perspective, he would have realised the dangers? OR, Maybe he could sit down with Arnold and have a conversation to establish a sort of checklist he can memorise. So it’s like, ok I’m gonna do some risky shit, run thru checklist, am I ok with all the potential fallout if this goes wrong etc etc Edit: wrote this before reading the whole chapter… maybe someone other than Arnold? Haha I dunno
AfroMocha
I was thinking if Jake were to create his own transcendence skill. My thinking is it would be something that would probably do with his like origin. I'm thinking maybe some power transformation where it becomes like the origin of what he's supposed to be the primal Hunter. And the drawback would probably be like a loss of perception like a huge chunk of it. Which isn't really all that bad since he has that orb from orus that gives him perception every time licks it
Laurent Jerry
Suggestion to kill some time !!!! Empty his inventory and distribute or put stuff to use !!!
Jaydan Man
Also, I don't see palate when it's fixed still being palate.
Jaydan Man
Well, that might not be the only consequences... I wouldn't be shocked if he has to do something in his weakened state he could have breezed at full power, with some kind of consequence. Throw in not getting top spot on an event. Records and potential are lost. Not much but still.
Matthias
Tftc
Ty Cooper
OK GREAT! Jake is going to still do stupid stuff and keep taking risks. With just a step beforehand with a self thought moronic meter. Glad this whole situation didn't hamper Jake. Thank you thank you. You didn't perma-nerf our MC. Hate it when long series decide to nerf the MC to change it up for some God forsaken reason. I repeat. Thank you Thank you Zog.
Jennifer Leigh
Thanks for the chapter. Arnold's thoughts about the testing gave me a laugh! No way should he be responsible for Jake doing something.
Gavin
Honestly as far as consequences go...these aren't too bad. Palate will get fixed and his resource pools will eventually recover
SmokeJam
Now I image an old man with disheveled long hair and a ripped half open blue robe. Rick-style.
Zogarth
Fix
Zogarth
Fix
Straat Junon
Tyfc
JSC
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again. This is my favorite arc of the whole series. Thank you Zog
Arieh Sochaczevski
I’m surprised the Sword Saint would take Jake’s description of ‘a bit rough’ so casually. He’s got to know that if Jake said something like that, anyone else would say ‘planet ending catastrophe’. Maybe he just forgot.
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Cory Sauls
TFTC
Gunnar Crider
“I am aware the man has a Bloodline and it quite "competnet"> (competent) in his own right, but he is still only C-grade,” Vesperia insisted.
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter! “[…] Dewstone and Serenity and the Serene Water[…]” —> ´Dewstone of Serenity’, I think
Conclave
It is here !
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
Farmingaround
Tyftc!
