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Chapter 968 - Understanding the Scales of Desolation
🕑 Added 2024-08-05 11:14:10 +0000 UTCA pulsing sensation echoed through Jake’s entire body and soul as waves of desolation were released from within himself, seeking to spread out from its containment. This situation was very different from the scenario with the Dark Witch. Back then, he had a volatile and explosive core, but the Half-a-Planetary Core Jake had eaten this time around was the exact opposite of volatile.
In many ways, it was far scarier than something that just went boom. Jake didn’t even feel any pressure on the inner walls of the Palate stomach, nor did he feel any pain. He just felt a sense of emptiness and numbness wherever the desolation passed. It was honestly soothing and relaxing, making Jake think that it was okay to just relax. Perhaps he should even take a nap.
However, he still knew his situation wasn’t good, and his survival instinct was fully engaged, as surrendering to the calmness and letting his consciousness fade away would mean he would never wake up again. He tried different methods to handle the desolation, but it quickly became clear there was simply too much energy to handle.
Palate of the Malefic Viper’s internal stomach was a separate space within Jake’s Soulspace, where anything he ate was sealed within and slowly extracted of energy and Records. Now, the walls were being made desolate faster than they could absorb the energy, which forced Jake to not try and supress all the energy of the core, but let some slip through and into his body.
To fight back, whenever desolation washed over him, a wave of destructive arcane energy followed, destroying and canceling out the energy of desolation. This did have the problem that Jake repeatedly hurt his own body, and things were far from ideal. He still had options if things continued like this… but just then, he felt something.
A warm flow of energy came over him, as he felt the parts he destroyed with his arcane energy be restored. He had been so focused on the fighting within himself that he hadn’t noticed the external world at all, nor the man who now stood in the chamber with him. Jake wanted to open his eyes, but he stopped when a message entered his mind.
“Focus on doing what you must do. I shall maintain the integrity of your body in the meantime,” Eron’s voice echoed in Jake’s mind. As he spoke, even more energy fell over Jake’s body as the desolation still lingering was rapidly pushed back by what felt like a tidal wave of pure vital energy.
The bane of desolation was something too powerful or too filled with energy to make desolate… and Eron was like an endless wellspring of pure vital energy. Jake truly didn’t know how much energy Eron had, but in that moment, he had an odd sense of confidence that should this be a battle of endurance between the consumed core and Eron, the healer wouldn’t be on the losing side.
That wasn’t what Jake wanted, though. He didn’t want the core “fixed” of its desolation, and every bit of energy that seeped out of the Palate’s stomach and into the rest of his being was a loss. Still, with Eron now watching over Jake, he could fully refocus on his internal realm without worrying about his body becoming an empty husk devoid of energy and life in the meantime.
Using Serene Soul Meditation, Jake let his consciousness enter his own Soulspace. Opening his eyes within the vast realm that was his soul, Jake took everything in. The shadowy figure representing Eternal Hunger, the single drop of blood floating in the middle of nothingness giving off extreme power, and the sky the color of his arcane affinity all struck his eye first, as he took in the world representing his own soul.
The stomach created by Palate wasn’t in this space, and yet it kind of was. It was like another layer of space, separated from the rest of his Soulspace. Perhaps this was by design to protect the user of the skill, but it was clearly still connected. If it was not, how else would the drop of blood from the Malefic Viper have ever appeared within his true Soulspace after he consumed it using Palate?
Focusing, he observed Palate’s stomach more closely than before. He was still purposefully allowing it to leak out energy to not flood the stomach. It was a bit like if the core constantly leaked water into a limited container, and if Jake didn’t allow some of it out, the Palate stomach would end up bursting. To stop that from happening, Jake would really only have one of five choices:
Firstly, he could purposefully explode the stomach and destroy the core while suffering a backlash. The second option was the simplest one, as he could always just spit out the core… though that would definitely turn the inside of the Prima Vessel into a permanent no-go zone, and Jake would probably have to ask Arnold to send the entire thing into empty space to avoid a disaster in the future. Option three was to not allow the stomach to leak into his body, but try and redirect everything into his real Soulspace, but Jake seriously didn’t know the consequences of that. Of course, besides these three options, he could also just try and hope things would eventually work out on their own as he let more and more desolation leak out into his body with expectations that Eron could keep it at bay until the core weakened enough for Jake to be able to handle it. Needless to say, this option was shit, and honestly, the other three weren’t exactly appealing either.
His fifth and final option was one most others wouldn’t even consider. Not because it was a bad idea but because it wasn’t at all feasible, especially not in a situation like this.
The fundamental source of all Jake’s problems was that his Palate of the Malefic Viper couldn’t handle the core. Jake was the type who liked the easiest solutions to the most complicated of issues, and the easiest way to handle this was to simply make his Palate capable of withstanding the Desolation Core, as Jake had just impromptu decided to call it.
But… how would he do that?
Standing within his Soulspace, Jake honestly didn’t think that option three – to simply release the desolation into his Soulspace – would do him much harm, but he did fear that it would effectively waste all the desolation energy within the core.
If Jake was dealing with any other kind of extremely dense energy source, he would be afraid of it exploding or something like that, but desolation didn’t work like that. Jake imagined it would just flood his Soulspace, wake up an annoyed Eternal Hunger, or even encounter the droplet of blood from the Viper and end up being erased entirely. Of course, that assumed it even got that far and wasn’t annihilated by the passive environment within Jake’s soul.
Also, as to why he was currently leaking desolation energy into his body to lessen the pressure and not into his soul… well, Jake didn’t know how to only pour a little into his Soulspace. He was only confident in effectively breaking down the wall and letting it all in, which, again, wouldn’t lead to anything productive or good.
However, Jake was convinced he still needed to break down that wall. He just had to do so very purposefully and with proper preparation. The problem was that right now, the stomach created by Palate only relied on the Records of Palate itself, which limited it far too much. If Jake wanted it to be able to withstand something like half a Planetary Core, he needed it to fully rely on Jake’s overpowered soul. At least, that’s what he believed.
As mentioned, he couldn’t just let everything flood into the Soulspace, though. He would need for it to be far more controlled, and as Jake considered what to do, he got an idea. However, he wasn’t sure how feasible it was nor how time-consuming it would be.
Without waiting around just theorizing, Jake planned to test out what he was thinking. While still within his Soulspace, he activated Scales of the Malefic Viper on his manifested form. The scales appeared, and Jake watched them closely as he tried to pry one off. Once he did, it turned into energy, disappearing instantly. Frowning, Jake tried something else. With his arcane energy, he formed a barrier and tried to make a scale appear on the barrier, but it didn’t work either.
Undeterred, Jake tried several more things until finally, he reached some level of success by doing something a bit brutal. Scraping off a sheet of his own flesh, Jake purposefully didn’t let it disappear as he made it float in the air. With focus, he then made scales grow on the flesh as Jake nodded, satisfied.
This… can work. But it will not be fast… and Scales isn’t good enough yet either, I think.
He had ideas, but none of them were fast. They all required time, and Jake didn’t know how much time he had. It was all dependent on his current healer, and rather than wonder on his own, Jake dedicated some of his attention to reaching out telepathically to Eron, communicating his intentions. The response he got was instant.
“Dispel all worry; I shall provide you all the time you desire. In fact, I implore you to not be too fast. An opportunity to encounter a C-grade version of desolation is a valuable experience, and it would sadden me to have this fortunate moment be too short,” Eron answered, sounding like he very much enjoyed healing Jake’s body, which was constantly in a state of being made desolate.
With a go-ahead from the local medical team, Jake didn’t hesitate any longer as he began to put his plan into motion. As to what his bat-shit plan was?
Well… he wanted to effectively create a “vessel” within his Soulspace for the Palate stomach to occupy. That was the oversimplification, anyway. The space within the stomach of Palate was integral and not anything he could afford to mess with. Anything swallowed wasn’t just slowly being consumed but also refined by Touch of the Malefic Viper at an accelerated pace, and that wasn’t something he could afford to lose.
So, Jake would need the stomach to exist within his Soulspace, yet still not be entirely within his Soulspace. His solution? An actual physical barrier within the metaphysical realm of his soul. A wall made of something with the innate properties of absorbing any energy it encountered and feeding it back to Palate. A wall made of scales from Scales of the Malefic Viper.
To clarify, Jake definitely didn’t actually know what he was doing or if this would at all work how he expected… but he sure as hell hoped it would. If he could connect his Palate more closely with the rest of his Soulspace, he could rely on the full power of his soul with Scales and create a feedback loop even when he ate things too powerful. Based on the power of his soul, Jake even theorized that should he succeed, having eaten the full Desolation Core wouldn’t have been impossible.
All things in good time, though. For now, Jake had to deal with the most pressing issues: his scales simply not being good enough for what he wanted to do in their current form. Right now, they had a lot of waste and Jake also wasn’t sure if his silly plan would work if Palate was at a higher level than Scales.
Plus, Jake had already commented before how he felt close to an upgrade with Scales. He didn’t really have the time back then to truly focus on improving the skill, though, but now he most certainly did. Finally, the circumstances for working on the upgrade were great, as Jake could really experiment with what he wanted to do.
Splitting his focus between his internal world and the external one, he covered his body with scales in the real world, allowing some of the desolation to seep all the way through and into the scales. Eron got massive credit as he noticed Jake purposefully led some of the desolation to his scales, and didn’t interfere but just healed everything Jake dragged the desolate energy through on the way.
Jake observed closely how the desolation didn’t affect the scales like it did everything else. His scales were the only thing Jake had seen that wasn’t outright made desolate when encountering the energy, and as he observed them… he understood why, and he couldn’t help but smile a bit at the explanation.
Had it all backward…
From the get-go, Jake had assumed the scales were just supremely resistant to the concept of desolation, however, he now realized that he had it wrong from the beginning. It wasn’t because the scales weren’t made desolate… it was that they already were desolate from the very beginning.
All the scales encountering desolation did was activate the inherent concept already existing within them and empowered it until the concept of desolation became too strong and overwhelmed everything else within the scale. From the outside, it looked and felt the same, but the difference was far from negligible.
Jake made full use of his high Perception as he dove into the inner workings of his scales as best he could to really understand them more. As he did so, he realized just how complex those small dark green things really were. They were like marvels of magical engineering, perfectly evolved and improved over time as the Viper grew in power. From the time he was a small snake to a wyvern and finally a dragon… but that understanding wasn’t entirely accurate either, as Jake realized something the more he looked at the scales.
He had already thought of Scales of the Malefic Viper as being the scales of a dragon. Why wouldn’t he? Dragon scales were known as one of the most powerful natural defenses any race had in the entire multiverse.
However, the more closely he looked at his scales now, the more he realized they weren’t truly the scales of a dragon, even if they looked and felt incredibly similar. They weren’t made to simply resist magic but to absorb and consume it, and their form was… off. They were too thin and weren’t hard and tough like dragon scales tended to be.
Jake once more could only sigh at his own lack of understanding. His Patron wasn’t the Malefic Dragon, now was he? He was the Malefic Viper. The forefather of all snakes. Why would his legacy skill include dragon scales and not something that evolved beyond that? They were snake scales and had always been.
Actively pushing, Jake began to try and manipulate his scales even as desolation kept pouring into them. He felt the process during which the desolation within them was activated when encountering the concept and remembered that sensation. He still had fuck-all understanding of desolation as a concept, but his scales clearly knew it very well.
Minutes turned to hours as time passed, and Jake kept exploring the sensation of his scales. How they absorbed the energy, the connection with Palate, their inner workings as best he could… and the more he explored them, the more he realized how much he had yet to uncover. He had put off truly trying to understand his scales for too long and could only marvel at their ingenuity and infinite complexity. It was like he had just climbed out of a pit and saw an entire world before him, yet to explore.
However, what he did find and was able to awaken was enough for the system to recognize his efforts and reward him with an upgrade that was perhaps long overdue. There was nothing flashy about the upgrade, which shouldn’t be surprising, as desolation tended not to be.
[Scales of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] --> [Scales of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] (Rarity Unchanged)
[Scales of the Malefic Viper (Legendary)] – The Malefic Viper’s scales are the first, and often the only required, line of defense. These scales harken back to the days the Malefic Viper lived as a dragon and retain many of these draconic properties… but the Malefic Viper is far more than just a dragon. Allows the Alchemist of the Malefic Viper to turn parts of his skin into scales, vastly increasing the effect of Toughness and adding a certain damage threshold. All damage below the threshold is nullified. You have further awakened inherent concepts within the scales, making them more durable and allowing you to turn a portion of all damage taken desolate while making your scales poisonous to the touch when they are infused with mana. The scales are legendarily resistant to magic and will store excess mana from any magical attacks that would have otherwise damaged you. If the damage taken by the scales is above the threshold of the scales, take it directly with a portion made desolate or dispersed into your immediate surroundings. Otherwise, this mana will be slowly refined and absorbed using your current level of Palate of the Malefic Viper (Legendary) if possible. Passively provides 9 Toughness per level in Heretic-Chosen Alchemist of the Malefic Viper (C-grade version). May your scales be as perennial as the Malefic One, those foolish enough to touch them waste away, and the very sight of your scales let all know that resistance is futile.
As always, these damn descriptions of the Viper’s Legacy skills only got longer and longer with every upgrade. But to highlight the changes… Jake had successfully managed to unlock some of the concepts within the scales, more accurately, some of their inherent desolation that was part of the malefic affinity. This resulted in even better defenses against both magical and physical attacks, though the actual effectiveness of this was yet to be determined.
One other thing was that his scales were now poisonous to the touch when infused with mana. In all honesty, Jake hadn’t even actively tried to awaken this part, it was just something he stumbled upon when exploring the scales.
Finally, the description now also directly specified it absorbed energy using Palate of the Malefic Viper. Oh yeah, there was also the fact he now got more Toughness from the skill, but that was the most expected outcome.
With the upgrade done, Jake quickly took status of himself. In the outside world, Eron still looked like he was having a swell time healing Jake, which made Jake decide to continue with his plan.
Using these empowered scales, Jake wanted to build a cocoon or a sphere or something within his Soulspace to contain the Palate stomach within. Something he promptly started doing as sheets of human skin began floating off his body with scales growing on them, as a massive sphere was slowly being formed. He had to make sure it was perfectly made, but even so, doubt remained.
Jake was far from certain this idea would work with his current version of Palate. There was a good reason not a single one of Jake’s skills was fully represented within his Soulspace, outside of maybe Eternal Shadow, but that was bound to his mythical weapon.
To allow the skill to manifest within his Soulspace would be to integrate it far more deeply with Jake than anything else, and Jake honestly had no idea how to do that. He could temporarily manifest a skill within his Soulspace, but this wouldn’t be that.
But… he still wanted to give it a try, though he had a feeling he would need something more than just time and hard work to get any kind of result. Which did make him wonder…
What would happen if Jake Juice was used within his own Soulspace, and what would its effects be when interacting with a skill where its Origin was his good friend Villy?
Comments
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Karate Koala
His only problem is that he keeps doing stupid shit and hoping it works out 🤣🤣
Balsamic ThunderThighs
Strange that I got sent this today after I read it. Lol
Daniel Hamilton
This getting good. Scales upgrade plus the list of Jake juice. Let’s gooooo
Kconraw
Thx for the chapter
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
jujuxxbean
I love how Eron is just sitting there watching Jake do crazy shit. Just happy as a clam himself basking in desolation lol 😂
Rezkin
Yeah
Joshua Kitchen
Nice chapter. How many level will Eron get from this session I wonder? Healing the top dog from a top-tier concept for hours on end has to be pretty juicy
Paperback Hail6
I almost hope that something goes "wrong" and some Jake juice gets of the blood of the malefic viper. If it returns to its origin then wouldn't Jake a a mini viper he can just take around with him everywhere. even if the system decides to block all God Jake will still have his villy. Yes, I did indeed picture the villy like more of a baby or stuffie sized villy
Christopher Lee
I really need the next chapter, this cliffhanger is too much
Demonshadow639
Holy shit! Can’t wait to see how Jake manages to mutilate his soul then use the Jake juice to help stop said mutilation or better yet use it to house and adapt Villys skill into his own. I think Eversmile and Yip called it the divine usurper route? I mean in this case it would just be another part of his heretically nature right?
Scipio
Once jakes absorbs the desolate energy i wonder if he will be able to add the affect to his poison brewing
Kevin
It’s literally his soul. It’s already his domain.
Thenais
Mad experiment, arnold will be proud
DDHG
Yeah that. That is what I meant, he can dodge damage no problem. But straight up letting a C grade hit him full on, and it do no damage is a different story. Anyone playing old Tabletops understand that threshold damage is a pain in the ass to deal with.
Seen Death
Definitely a super rare scenerio for eron to be in Most people (if theyre lucky) would just leave crumbly bones behind, and if did somehow survive there would be no active desolation energy left (otherwize they would have died) Jake benefitted greatly, using desolation energy to observe how his scales interacted with them, id imagine something similar is happening for eron now aswell... But we still dont know much about eron's secrets so i also look foward to the future
Jose Reyna
TFTC
D375
Being a fly on the wall for the conversations between Jake and Villy, Villy and the other gods, and Jake and the other gods will be a lot of fun. The crazy thing is that we're only partway through this arc and the craziness will build from here... I'd love to see Jake and co take out "I", unleash a plague on Ell-Hakan's victims, and cement Jake as the ruler of the Milky Way. What other crazy actions do you think will happen between now and the end of the arc?
Numbzy
I forsee an upgrade to Anomalous Soul of the Heretic-Chosen (Legendary) coming. I bet this has to change to allow this plan to manifest.
Tristan
Villy is absolutely going to get a level from Jake's shenanigans this time around I can feel it
LongMickeyRicky
C grade domain would be dope as fuck definetely would he something i never saw coming
Nick O'Gara
Second skin of the primal hunter
Adriano Dominguez
I can't wait for him to let slip "Jake Juice" in front of somebody else, especially someone who doesn't know Jake personally, and starts spreading it around until the System officially renames "Origin Energy" into "Jake Juice"
S_Ally
Yea, tapping into a Primordial's Origin records while upgrading what amounts to an extra-dimensional space skill might have a domain-type effect on his soulspace. Jake Juice + System Fuckery = C grade domain
Andrew P
Won't this make his soulspace more like a gods domain?
Brandon Turner
This just makes me imagine Villy having a race evolution option to transform to a dragon and scoffing while saying he doesn't want to be some weak dragon.
Arieh Sochaczevski
I suspect he’ll see the video himself. Sooner rather than later. If Yippy doesn’t send it to him directly as a taunt, I would be dispassionate if Villy’s information collecting efforts couldn’t manage it.
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter! I was really hoping for a second skill-upgrade in the one chapter. Then again, I’m almost always left wanting more. Maybe I’m just greedy.
TheSDH90 .
No, Jake-Juice is clearly better. It shows his clear lack of care for what other people think.
TheSDH90 .
Love the fact he still calls it Jake-Juice. Hope that never changes
William WIlson
Jake's nullified c grade damage via dodging for like ever. That being said Jake's scales can probably tank most c grade damage now.
William WIlson
Shoot I think desolation might be what his destruction arcane affinity has faint records of. It said to touch on high level concepts and for destruction what's more high level than desolation
William WIlson
Villy getting a couple of levels might happen considering both villy and Duskleaf got levels for Vesperia. I just don't see villy getting a level for Jake upgrading a couple of his skills. Jake has to create a new creation for villy to get noticeable experiments in my opinion. Again Jake might turn the half world core into an essence of desolation crystal which I can being a new creation, or at minimum a new way of creating a desolation essence.
Endern
I feel like this will be an upgrade for his Anomalous Soul of the Heretic-Chosen skill.
William WIlson
Probably right they probably all merge at once so we won't see a merge tomorrow.
Yeslek Nnamhctits
Eron has gotta be doing some of his own leveling. I can imagine him just being thrust back too force feeding eternal hunger for a bit mentally, and then leveling like Irin just cause Jake is an immense source of records.
TyranT-Rex
The post event conversation between Jake and Villy is going to be great. Villy leaves Jake alone for a few years and he recruits a cult leader with over a hundred billion members, resurrects doomfoot, eats half a planetary core corrupted by pure desolation, and is now incorpating it into his soul space through Palete, and after spreading his Jake Juice over everything, who knows what's going to happen.
Ty Cooper
It does seem like he will incorporate it into part of his destructive portion of his arcane affinity
Borbino the great
That’s what I’m saying this dude is gonna light up like a penguin under a black light after this next chapter😂
Ty Cooper
What you don't like him spreading his Jake Juice all over the place like a hotel room under a black light. Lol
Darshar Griffonmane
Yeah Eron is probably going to be like "Jake, you eat the strangest shit....Thank you." Which Jake could only respond to, "Hey, gonna blow up the moon later, wanna join?"
TyranT-Rex
Haha hey not too late. Let's see what his Jake Juice does.
LongMickeyRicky
Good observation liam
Ty Cooper
Frankenstein came alive by lightning
Ty Cooper
I like the skill name!
austin kutz
Why would lightning bother him any more than another type of magic?
SilverSentry
Great chapter. Looking forward to the test of the week. You're a savage with the content you consistently provide. Thank you!
DirePants
😂😂😂 fuckin Jake! What kind of origins is he going to bring out from Villy?? Always doing some crazy shhh. 🤦🏾♂️ fortune favors the bold and all that ig- I was fully expecting an Indomitable Stomach of the Arcane Primal Hunter skill tho
Damian Karis
My guess is desolation is one of the few things that can still pose a threat to Eron, and he’s loving the opportunity to play around with it and possibly shore up one of his weaknesses.
Luke Scheffe
I don’t think they’ll actually merge just yet. I think they’ll instead just have increased synergy and be on the path towards merging when he integrates more malefic viper skills. Only matching once all skills are accounted for, and maybe a few bonus skills from elsewhere.
DasGoat622
So people already just drop dead if Jake looks at them funny. How are people gonna respond when they just start dissolving in front of him for no reason that they can see.
DasGoat622
What kind of Frankenstein soul monster is Jake building of his soul. 1 overpowered soul 2 drop of Villy’s blood 3 Eternal Hunger 4 Jake Juiced quasi dragon scale container fill with half a desolation core. If he gets hit by a lightning skill shits gonna get sideways real quick. Brown trousers time for the orange fuck. Luckily for him Halloween is just around the corner.
Luke Scheffe
He’ll still get the records and possibly levels from Jake doing something impressive as his chosen. And as old as he is, he can probably analyze records enough to figure out the gist of things.
Inv7ctus
Bro is just as insane as always. Gotta love Jake. Though I do hope he starts calling it origin energy. Please, have mercy on the multiverse.
Arkenian
Jake and Eron bonding over the chance to learn about world destroying power is somehow totally hilarious to me.
MacMahon Wenzl
That's kind of the point. All Villy will know is that "something" has changed because of Jake. He will be left sitting there looking off into the middle distance going "what da'fuuu" knowing Jake did something, but not knowing what actually occurred.p
Kyle
Jake's approach to problem solving reminds me of Jason from The Good Place. "Anytime I had a problem and I threw a molotov cocktail... boom, right away, I had a different problem". Can't wait to see what new nonsense Jake cooks up with this.
William WIlson
Only if the system event is done. Villy can't see anything in the 93rd universe right now
William WIlson
Nah I don't think that's what's happening. I think Jake is creating a desolation essence
James Faulkner
Sounds like he’s on his way towards creating a Primal Hunter legacy skill!
ReadingObsessed
Jake: Dude your skill descriptions are so long. Villy: You mean your skill descriptions don't scroll? Sounds like a skill issue.
John Durrett
Well it is when you have Jake’s bloodline putting its foot on the scales. Funny pun came out of that that’s also very appropriate to the story
John Durrett
Between the desolate core , palette and scales it seems like he’s creating a nuclear battery.
King Nereus
What he has already done with his Jake juice is already beyond what the gods can do, so that isn’t too far fetched. Whatever happens, we can be sure it’s likely something that only he could have done.
Doctordirt
I feel like thats been true for a long while
MacMahon Wenzl
So the next chapter is going to start with Villy having a drink with Valdimar and he stops mid sentence, then turns his head in a random direction and goes "What da'fuu"
ShivaMcTimber
TYFTC!!! I don't know about any of you, but I got new records just from reading this chapter.
Andrew K
Celestial rarity would be unfortunate given EH's claimed title. Primal rarity would be much more fitting (and support a "the system gave up on trying to contain Jake's shenanigans this time" vibe).
Daniel is ŁØNE
Is it truly moronic if it only breeds benefits, at a certain point if all your "moronic" actions only bring good results it stops being moronic and becomes misunderstood genius.
Borbino the great
Damnit Jake stop getting your juice on everything!
Sean
Why do I have a feeling something like Arcane Desolation (I know that isn’t a thing but I couldn’t think of a better way to say it) is going to pop up in both him and Villy’s records once he uses Jake Juice on it.
Mike
Villy is about to get a wholeeee lotta records from Jake because of this
Xarow
Ha if this were to happen then I am sure there will be endless jokes and banter about the quality and quantity of Jake Juice it takes to make it.
DDHG
Jake is getting to the point where he could potentially nullify C rank damage. Which makes sense since the primal hunter is a monster built around hunting creatures far stronger then it. At this point I think your subpar and average C grade who wouldn't make it to B grade is gonna find Jake unkillable.
Ammar Atia
yo can you only post the changes to the description of jakes stats and have a full stats chapter, so we can get the important onformation and skip what we don't want to listion to (mainly ana audiobook convenience)
Liam
shit getting real
Hussein Zenki
stomach of the primal hunter makes the most sense ( the primal hunter eats whatever he wants whenever he wants without consequence.)
Ty Cooper
Duskleaf made something awesome from palette of the viper and made it his own.
Ty Cooper
I am looking forward to reading what he got from this experience
Azayrian105
Zuuuuuri you owe me $10!
SmokeJam
I can't remember it exactly, but I think back at the start, when Jake claimed more of the Blessing than he should've been able to, the Viper said that claiming part of the Patrons Record through this blessing is basically a last step before turning to Godhood and usually only done in S-Grade if even at all. So yeah, turning Legacies into your own is probably something you don't do before S-Grade either. Especially considering that Records of a God usually simply annihilate a mortal if they try to stand up to them. Jake is a goddamn cheat.
Azayrian105
You underestimate Jake Juice.
Ty Cooper
Eron is absolutely loving every second. He probably is going to play a key role in taking out "I". SS and Carmen would have a hell of a time fighting "I".
Azayrian105
I wonder if he is setting up for Palate to become a Mythical skill?
SmokeJam
Ah yes, like putting the max security sector right next to the office door of the Oval Office. What could go wrong. I guess using Jake Juice will fuse some Malefic skills. If you think about it, the Malefic Legacy skills "build" a whole body, because they are based on the whole body of the Viper (and its functions). So "returning" them to their Origin would mean they fuse back together into the better whole thing instead of representing disconnected singular aspects each. This might be a first step a few grades earlier than recommended.
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Lynderyn
Primal Scales of the Malefic Viper, and/or Stomach of the Primal Hunter anyone?
Shup Idot
I wonder how much Eron will level from this, can't imagine healing someone through desolation is common
Quasimagics
How many juicing Jakes does it take to Jake juice a Jake with juice before the juice Jakes all the Jake juice from a Jake?
William WIlson
Come on guys we've been waiting for this moment since Jake's d grade evolution. Palate of the Malefic Viper and scales are about to merge. Shoot it looks like he half merged them already via the scales description
William WIlson
I don't think Jake can. Shoot I don't think Jake will actually manage to change the skill enough to make it some primal version. I think he's going to start fusing the Malefic skills.
drink mer
I've been waiting for him to use his juice on something related to the viper. I can also see some time down the line after meeting with villy's teacher upgrading his boots using his juice aswell
Kyler
Skin cancer
William WIlson
Can you imagine the conversation between eron and Miranda. Erons all sitting there healing when Miranda asks him to head to the prima vessel. Eron being the true healer is kinda annoyed because we'll he's a healer healing shit. Then Miranda says Jake's bringing back some desolation thing, and eron practically runs her over in excitement.
Justin Buro
I would even go as far as to say it might even be some god shit, though I dont know if going THAT far is too much
Adrianna Bailey
Hehehe, Jake gets a primordial pouch like a cat lmao
Justin Buro
Oh we can hope!
John Balman
I think is going to be more of a sigh of course you pulled some s grede shit at C 😂
Dustin
Dermatitis of Desolation
Ira White
People think dedication is the most important thing when trying to do the impossible but there's something more important and that is the power of "fuckit". "fuckit" will give you more will power then anything else. It is an internal vow that you're going to win or die, successfully achieve your goals or fail so spectacularly that the attempt will be worthy a legendary ballad, fuckit is the power to bend the world to your will and make the impossible reality. The Viper and Jake are the power of fuckit personified. If by the time this story is done Jake doesn't have a title that is called "fuckit hold my beer" I'm going to be sad lmao.
John Balman
A stew of epic awesomeness from what I can see
John Balman
Ok what font are you using for. Your name seeing it and I need to know 😂
BumAssBumAss
Which his scales poisonous, his touch of the maleific viper can benefit from that
John Balman
Remember thing damn these two are the same kind of crazy 🤣
John Balman
Probably be more sense/perception of the primal hunter to say on theme lol
John Balman
I'm starting to wonder if claiming a legacy skill as your own ..... isn't a step ( or something similar) to Godhood which is of course normally only done during S grade. Basically claiming more of your path as your own LoL
Exaiter
Do it! Fucking do it! Mythical skill upgrade incoming, lets fucking gooooo
Zogarth
Fixed
KenTX325
I’m glad to see Jake is getting a few abilities upgraded before B grade. He needs to get ready as he should be ready to fight B grades soon.
deednam
Oh shit i wonder if this will show up to yips like planning mode thing that he became a usurper in title i can imagine that is effectively what will jappen
Radzig
I somehow feel another SUPER HERETIC SKILL UPGRADE INCOMING.
Michael
Bro is gonna make a clone of Vilas inside his souls pace using the drop of blood
Austin Barton
DRAGON BALL Z
Kyler
The oysters are knocking me down atm, stomach is embracing desolation
Tommy
Jake giving his foes the stink eye 😂
Kyler
Could just resort to using Villy’s name, “Villys Scales of absolute disregard to all things magical and disruptive to his nature”
Matthew Nelson
I would just like to point out that Zogarth has made a multiverse with such incredible depth to it that he could probably make at least 50 volumes explaining the mechanics of The Primal Hunter.
Kyler
Eczema of desolation
Mantiqore
Primordial skin flakes
John Balman
One experiment leads to another lol
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Jonathan
Scaping off a sheet of his own flesh, Scraping Jake purposefully lead some of the desolation to his scales, led or leaked He had put on truly trying to understand his scales for too long put off Eron still looked like he was having a swell of a time healing Jake, a swell time, or a hell of a time Jake is definitely the guy that would push the big red button labeled 'do not touch' before the big boss fight.
Zogarth
Fix
Nate Oppy
😮
Tommy
Throw every word in there! Scales of the malefic heretic chosen primal hunter electric boogaloo 😂
Kyler
If it’s going to change into his legacy, I’m not sure if it’s going to be considered scales anymore for it to fit the fact that he is a high human, I guess like epidermis of the hunter lmao, also if he uses his juice in something that’s already considered a primordial which are the firsts normally also the origin, I’m not sure it’ll work unless it takes things back to before the system
Tommy
If we know our boy Jake. And I think we do. We know he gonna say fuck it and throw that Jake Juice in the mix! Can’t wait to see what he creates! Let’s goooooo Thanks for the chap 👍
Andromeda Adams
Ooo what would happen? TYFTC!
Skyler Brown
Desolate cloak of the primal hunter?
Clint
Autocorrect messed up your “Thank Villy”. 🐍
Ty Cooper
That would be sick. Eyes flash as the other person just starts turning to dust
Kyler
Thankfully, it’s Monday
hachetnif
My bet is that he's Skill Will be affected by. Is primeval origin stuff? So it will probably be Caldron of primeval origins or something similar
Ty Cooper
I think the Desolation is more of an internal power. He is just going to eat up all I has to through at him.
Josh Hackney
Awesome chapter. Always excited to see Jake rush his own life for progress!
kingofshibainu
Let's see what happens here to our little usurper.
Kris Piskorski
So is it finally time for jake to start changing the malefic skills into his own skills starting with palate? Palate of the Primal Hunter sounds nice
Ty Cooper
Oh man! Are we going to get a of the primal hunter skills started. Scales of the primal hunter or palette of the primal hunter? No matter what he does I feel it is going to make it a of the redacted (primal hunter) skill. Also Eron is cracking me up. Wonder what crazy upgrades Jake is helping him wrack up. This has to be doing wonders for him. Can't wait to see what he gets from this whole experience.
Lay Nkay
Now Jake's getting desolation powers. That 'I' creature will be in for a shock when Jake is over powered and uses his desolation while fighting him
Zuuuuuri
Yes… hopefully things look up for me and the skill doesn’t upgrade :D ah who the hell am I kidding it’s gonna upgrade…
Bi-Dailey
TFTC
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth! Although, you are such a tease by ending the chappy with Jake Juice speculation! The Malefic Cliffer strikes again!
Reno
🐍 Manifest your friendly neighbourhood Villy in your very own soul space, and you'll never miss your buddy again! Whenever the real Villy is out of reach, simply pop into your soul and talk to Origin Villy. Most users cannot even tell the difference!* Disclaimer: Origin Villy is not a god, and Jake Juice™ offers no warranty express or implied that your Villy clone can bail you out of trouble. Users are advised to not take unnecessary risks, or at the very least to not take more risks than they normally would. Thank you for once again choosing Jake Juice™ to solve your direst problems. ☺️
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Karim Saadi
Scales of the malefic viper have evolved -> Scales of the heretic chosen hunter
Psyck0
Palette of the primal hunter? Palette of the primal beast? Shall we get a second mythical skill find out next time on...
Mr. Truthly
Not every day you see someone moronic enough to eat a desolation core.
Tommy
t 👏👍
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I like where this is going!
Tyler S.
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Imagine if this bleed over to his other soul abilities, like his Gaze ability. Then he could inflict desolation based soul damage at a glance Also, no way the scales deviate from the "of the malefic viper" series, because they would lose connection to malefic records and origin.
Rick Delallata
Lets go! Another reckless plan that's just going to work out for our boi because his instincts are insane
Mohammed Sheekh
so jake will effectively have a pseudo divine skill if he uncovered its origins? the system wouldn't allow that
Anime Problem
Jake is poking a stick into the territory of hunting higher grade beings by doing this and I'm A OK with that
Cory Sauls
Oh sh!t here we go. Jake 🧃 coming to join the party. Can’t wait to see what Villy says once communication is restored between them. Thanks for the chapter Zogarth!
Chris Warner
Tftc
Shadowessence
Oooooh please let silly come inside....his souls pace, so many jokes.
Bryan Wilson
How funny would it be if added desolation to his repertoire
Julian
What if, the jake juice causes the changes to propagate to other skill-holders?
Athena
tftc :) "his Palata capable" -> "his Palate capable" "Scaping off a sheet" -> "Scraping off a sheet"
Burkes
You fucking madman zog what are you cooking.
One Winged Angel
Ya, had the same stomach problems when I ate Taco Bell last Wednesday. Gonna rename food poisoning to Desolation training.
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
Abdulaziz ALRumaih
Can’t wait for tomorrow
Justin Buro
Methinks we're gonna soon see the rarity above mythical. My bet is on celestial. Yes, yes, it's stereotypical but don't fix it if it ain't broke! Also, Villy's gonna see that Jake did something to his soul and be absolutely flabbergasted at what he did next time they meet. "This is b-grade territory!" He'll say, "you shouldn't be able to do this yet" he'll add, etc etc
Darshar Griffonmane
If he does this right, he should be able to add the concept of desolation in some form to his attacks. One of his few weaknesses is running into opponents with more resources or resource recovery than him. Especially since he almost always hunts higher level entities. Desolation infused attacks should prevent the resource recovery at the very least (plus all the other fun stuff the concept does). Very nice chapter indeed!!
Arrogant Savant
I love how eron is like "No, take your time, I am learning alot"
Invictus Red
"make his Palata" Palate?
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
Jana
Sooo Erons Life Energy alone rivals half a planet core of desolation - pretty sure that one stood next to Jake when OP Bloodlines were given out. And Jake is firm on track to his next happy little accident, makes me really excited for this weeks chapters.
Michael McMahon
Banger chapter thanks!
David W. Baijense
Tftc, hey y'all remember them bets for those skill upgrades and such?
Thesaogamer Kirito
Tftc
Jonathan Haverlid
Thank you
Fucking Shracc
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