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Chapter 966 - The Concept of Desolation
🕑 Added 2024-08-01 11:11:15 +0000 UTCDesolation…
A concept Jake knew a lot about yet felt like he barely understood. Not because he was a moron – though that could be debated - or didn’t have the affinity for the concept, but because he was only a C-grade. The concept of desolation was simply not something Jake had ever expected to see in a context like this.
Not to say the concept couldn’t be used by those at C-grade or even at lower grades, but this was desolation in its purest form. It wasn’t just a part of some skill that had some aspects of desolation added to it. No, this was far scarier. One thing was certain… Jake was a lot more apprehensive about this ”I” character now than before. If it was a creature that could actually control the concept of desolation to this extent, this system event had just gotten a lot more dangerous than before.
One of the distinct aspects of the concept of desolation was its ability to cause ”permanent” damage. As was shown when Villy removed the arm of the one from the Azureflight back in the Order, the concept wouldn’t just erase the arm itself but the part of the Soulshape it usually inhabited. That meant there was no easy way to heal it, and no amount of potions or meditation would help.
Not to say it couldn’t be healed… but Jake had no idea how to, and he doubted anyone on Earth knew how either. The only surefire way of healing something like that was through evolution, where you were effectively reborn. Jake had no desire to lose any limbs or anything like that, though, but the mere fact such a risk existed for him and the others from Earth was unsettling. If someone did get injured, they would likely have to wait till the event was over and find someone worth healing them in one of the larger factions in another universe.
Standing up, Jake really took in the environment and its effects on him. His energy was slowly being drained, but what’s more, his resources weren’t regenerating at all. Jake even felt that should he sit down and meditate, he would only be draining himself further.
Turning to the Prima Vessel, he decided to inspect it more closely. He found that the damage caused to it was primarily surface-level, but the mere fact it had taken any damage at all was surprising. After inspecting the Vessel a bit further, he found its entrance that was unlocked after killing the Prima Guardian, which he honestly wasn’t sure if he could even enter.
However, when he got close, the barrier allowed him inside. Jake even noted how it didn’t seem to check his key at all but just let him enter, which definitely wasn’t how it worked on other planets. At least not those with living World Leaders.
The inside of the Prima Vessel was pristine for the most part, except for one thing. Down the hallway leading to the three different rooms, a set of footprints could clearly be seen. They had left imprints that gave off the same concept of desolation as the world outside. When Jake used his foot to wipe away one of the footprints, he saw they had all been made up of gray dust and that the Vessel itself hadn’t been affected.
Jake continued further into the Vessel and saw more traces of the creature that had entered it. From the form and size of its footprints and other minor clues, he estimated it was some kind of humanoid being. Oddly, it also seemed to have some kind of limp. He couldn’t gather much more from what was left behind, except for the fact he only felt the concept of desolation and nothing else from all its traces.
While desolation was an incredibly powerful concept, it was also very limiting. It tended to not work well together with other affinities or concepts due to its nature. In fact, its properties made it so very few creatures natively able to use the affinity existed. In many ways, something being alive or at least possessing a soul was counter-intuitive to the concept in the first place. Desolation was all about not only non-existence but the continued state of non-existence, and a creature existing while being all about non-existence was weird.
There were some creatures and people in the multiverse well-versed with the affinity, though… Jake’s very own Patron being one of its most well-known users.
To the Malefic Viper, the concept had been a part of his Path for a long time. Likely all the way back to when he was known as the Wyvern of the Desolates. At least Jake doubted it was a coincidence the snake god was known under that name back then while also being well-versed in the concept of desolation now.
Later on, desolation became one of the fundamental aspects of the malefic affinity, which was an affinity Jake couldn’t even begin to understand yet. He said that, despite his own constant usage of the affinity through Touch of the Malefic Viper, the glowing dark green color broadly considered a signature aspect of the affinity.
Jake had never felt the existence of desolation when using Touch, though. He was sure it would come one day.
Arriving at the control room within the Prima Vessel, Jake saw everything was still active and working, with the only traces of the creature a bit of gray dust here and there. After only a moment of hesitation, he began seeing if he could control the Vessel. This also didn’t prove any trouble, as Jake did something potentially risky and teleported the Prima Vessel down to the center of the planet.
Having seen the state of the planet’s surface, he could only begin to suspect what the core looked like. That’s also why he knew this wouldn’t be without risk. The core room was bound to be far more dangerous than the surface of the planet, but Jake felt like he had to risk it to better understand what he was dealing with.
Going to the exit of the Prima Vessel, Jake began preparing himself. He started by summoning his Scales of the Malefic Viper, covering his entire body, followed by several powerful layers of stable arcane barriers. While doing this, Jake even used Arcane Awakening in its stable defensive form, increasing relevant stats by 50% while forming yet another layer of defense in the form of the small membrane of protective arcane energy right above the scales.
Feeling about as ready as one can be when about to enter a very hazardous environment, Jake exited the Prima Vessel. Instantly, he felt a shiver run down his spine as a sense of wrongness overwhelmed him. Everything within the core room was gray, even Jake himself and his arcane mana; the concept of color itself seemingly made desolate.
As he looked at his defensive barrier, it quickly began fading away. Desolation was not destructive or showy. It just drained everything and anything, allowing nothing to exist. Jake looked on with wide eyes as his barriers simply faded away one after another. He had to focus while he still could as he scanned the core room.
The colorless and lightless room made it difficult to spot anything in particular. However, locating the Planetary Core wasn’t difficult. It was by far the greatest source of desolation, and Jake focused his eyes as he saw the cracked gray core that had once been the Planetary Pylon. It had been reduced to a Planetary Core and was now nearly unrecognizable.
Seeing this core brought Jake all the way back to the Tutorial, where he corrupted a Quintessence to poison all the water in the lake of those big boars. The item had been intrinsically bound to the lake, and as long as he sufficiently corrupted that, the corruption would spread to the entire lake automatically, effectively turning it poisonous permanently.
This was no different. The Planetary Core was bound to the entire planet. It was what caused the atmosphere to exist, regulated affinities, maintained balance, and was the source of constantly spawning new energy for the world. Now, it had been corrupted. Rather than do all those things, it had become the source of the planet’s total destruction. It permeated desolation into every single part of the planet until, one day, the constantly growing power of desolation inside the core would become too much, making it crumble alongside the rest of the planet.
As Jake focused on the core, his final arcane barrier broke as the energy of desolation made contact with his scales of the Malefic Viper. Jake was ready to quickly charge back into the safety of the Prima Vessel as something unexpected happened. For the first time within the core room, he saw not only color but light.
His scales subtly lit up with a dark green color as the energy of desolation was stopped in its tracks entirely. That wasn’t all, as Jake felt something even more unexpected next: Mana. A little bit of mana traveled from Jake’s scales and into his body, restoring his mana pool.
Jake was in disbelief at what happened as he quickly recalled parts of the description of his Scales of the Malefic Viper:
”The scales are legendarily resistant to magic and will store excess mana from any magical attacks that would have otherwise damaged you... this mana will be slowly refined and be absorbed or dispersed into your surroundings.”
In truth, this mana-restoring feature wasn’t new; it was just pretty bad so he didn’t really ever think about it. It mainly sucked because Jake didn’t really get hit a lot by small constant attacks to absorb a bit at a time, but when he did get hit, it was by powerful attacks where the scales could only offer some extra resistance and nothing more. The mana he did absorb would simply be too powerful with too much quantity, resulting in the effect pretty much not doing anything.
Unless it was certain affinities, that is. Scales were incredibly potent at absorbing the light affinity, as one example, and for any poison-based mana, it was straight-up overpowered.
Now, he’d discovered another affinity that the scales were incredibly effective against, and it had come at just the right time as Jake smiled.
The formerly scary environment Jake was incredibly apprehensive about even approaching had, in an instant, turned from a danger into an opportunity. With gusto, Jake tried opening his mouth as he breathed some of the desolate energy in, and-
Jake felt all the energy drain from his internals; his tissue began to die as it was emptied of all energy, and one of his lungs had a part of it begin to smolder like it was made of ash. Never before had Jake shut up so fast, as luckily, new energy flooded in and restored the damage done in an instant, leaving no traces except for a lesson learned:
This place was still fucking dangerous even if he now had a method to exist there. In retrospect, it was a bit as if he was wearing a space suit and decided to open the helmet and take a deep breath… in other words, really moronic.
Having learned not to be too much of an idiot, Jake focused on the sensation of his scales absorbing the desolate energy. It was odd to imagine that the concept of nothingness could be turned into mana like that, and Jake seriously didn’t understand how it worked… but it seemed like he was on his way to finding out.
The process by which his scales made the constant attack of desolate energy into mana wasn’t only dependent on the scales but a skill specialized in turning harmful energies into resources: Palate of the Malefic Viper.
In other words, Jake wasn’t just absorbing mana from the environment; he was also absorbing knowledge and Records related to the concept of desolation. A little bit at a time, and with how complicated the concept was, this wouldn’t be a fast process if he wanted to actually learn anything useful. If he stayed in this core chamber for a prolonged period, Jake did believe he would benefit, but he just didn’t have that kind of time in the middle of a system event. If he wanted to really benefit, he reckoned he would have to stay there for a few years at least, which did suck as this wasn’t the kind of opportunity one could come across often.
Encountering a C-grade version of the concept of desolation wasn’t something Jake had ever expected. This was at a level where Jake stood a chance at absorbing and understanding it. An environment like this wasn’t something the Viper or anyone else could artificially create, and even if there likely were quite a few members of the Order who could use the concept of desolation to some extent, he doubted any of them could use such a pure version as he was experienced right now.
Leaving a place like this was truly a waste… but he didn’t have much of a choice.
Going to this planet had still been totally worth it, though. Jake had learned something very useful about his Scales of the Malefic Viper, learned a bit about the creature known as ”I,” and now even absorbed some Records related to desolation.
Not to say he was fully ready to leave quite yet. With his scales, he felt confident to get closer to the core, as he still wanted to learn more about how this entire planet had become this way. Floating within the monochrome chamber, Jake approached the core as the energy began to overwhelm him when he got too close. His scales definitely had a threshold, and Jake had to stop a bit away as he carefully inspected the core, trying to get a feel for what the creature had done to it.
Making use of his stupidly high Perception, Jake scanned the core. It turned out he didn’t really have to try that hard to figure out what had happened, though, as he shook his head. ”Crazy fucking bastard.”
Jake had many theories about how ”I” had corrupted a Planetary Core. Everything from grand rituals to being in possession of some incredibly powerful item akin to Eternal Hunger… yet the answer was far more simple. What the lunatic creature had done was by far the most simplistic and risky method… it infused its very soul into the Planetary Core, using itself as the catalyst of corruption.
This not only left the creature vulnerable during the entire corruption process, but risked losing parts of its soul in the process. Especially when dealing with a concept as dangerous as desolation. Even if Jake was taken aback had to admit this discovery was quite a relief.
It proved the creature wasn’t some ritual expert or anything like that. Shit, Jake was confident he would be better at corrupting a World Core. A lot faster, too.
Continuing to look at the core, Jake took in the intense and powerful energy it gave off. As he stood there staring, an idea began to form in his head. Turning around, Jake headed back into the Prima Vessel and to the teleportation room there. There, he made sure it worked as he checked to see if he could teleport back to Earth, something he could, and he didn’t even have to put in an application but could teleport straight there.
Having confirmed that, Jake headed back out of the Vessel once more. Floating toward the Planetary Core, Jake was thinking as he shook his head before muttering out loud.
”No… it would be too much…”
But… with the cracks already in the core and its unstable nature and clearly lowered durability…
”Yeah… I should be able to handle a good mouthful of it, at least.”
Comments
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter.
Karate Koala
But Eternal Hunger was still a bad idea. 🤣 A cursed weapon on that level is all kinds of reckless🤣
Vilastromoz
Tftc!
Rachel Clements
TYFTC!
Troy Telford
Ba-hahaha!!! Jake has a stupid idea ... eat a planetary core that literally destroys everything it touches on a conceptual level - yummy! 😆
Kconraw
Thx for the chapter
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
Blackened
When Draskil shows Jake his breath in the D-Grade dungeon they do together, his breath is desolation. Is "I" really just Draskil?
DasGoat622
Who had Jake’s eats planetary core on their bingo card? Ballsy, stupid but ballsy.
DasGoat622
@tyranT Rex I actually think it would be of greater use to the destructive aspect of arcane mana. In a weird way adding stability to the destruction. Currently the two aspects of his mana seem mutually exclusive, but desolation can maybe bridge the gap by adding stability, while at the same time once he understands desolation better he might begin to comprehend how to use his stable arcane mana to counteract the desolation concept. Dare I say he might start to comprehend concepts of resolution which is already fundamentally part of Jake even if he hasn’t used the word yet.
DasGoat622
@jake atwoodHe can already make parts of the body fall off or apart. That is what his necrotic poison does and he also has acids. And his heartrot poison affects the soul. I think you are right though in that this will be a big boon to his continued study of poisons as there is very little room for expanding the skill. At the very least it should add an element of permanence that should make his poisons harder to heal. Also given the fact that it is very closely related to the Malefic Viper I could see this help evolve his heretic standing as he can study the concept and gain records without the help of the Malefic Viper.
DasGoat622
Also the amount of Jake Juice required to recreate a planet would be impossibly high for his rank at least and probably even at S Rank without multiple millennia of Jake Juice saved up. Let alone to repopulate it with long lost or new evolved species.
William WIlson
Or maybe it helps him better understand his destruction portion of his affinity because the destruction is actually desolation.
William WIlson
I don't think it would work like that. Firstly Jake took only half of the core. Secondly the core itself is basically pre fucked up and is basically rotting away when Jake first sees it. Finally every single time we've seen Jake effect an evolution it was threw transmutation. What I suspected Jake is doing is mainly learning about desolation and I the creature who infused the energy. He may end up with a essence similar to the one in the Tutorial dungeon but desolation vs earth. I could see pallet taking what's left of the core and refining it into an essence that could handle the desolation energy.
Martín Ballesteros Arias
I thought "not again Jake!" Jajajaja
Martín Ballesteros Arias
He could be giving birth to a primeval planet... where long lost or extinct species will appear once again
Martín Ballesteros Arias
I got done here
EmmericH.
Dunno, like eating McDonalds ?
EmmericH.
I kind of remember Villy saying something in the line of having blessed a lot of people in Jake's universe, and even some with the same level of blessing as Draskil or even better ( I just don't remember which blessing he has and if there is another level above him before the chosen one) and also probably saying another thing when Jake asked about them that it would be telling or some shit like that, I'm at my third reading if you don't include nevermore, but it's really pure memories so not that reliable, so yeah a possible obstacle put there for Jake as to not damage to much his records by telling him, but to have probably Jake make his own conclusions and then create better records, this record stuff is truly horrible to understand sometimes 😂
EmmericH.
I guess it's pretty possible he could take the concept to further enhanced his arcane destruction abilities
EmmericH.
Wich also make Jake being the chosen of the keeper of forbidden knowledge which is another title for Villy a pretty good match, in comparison of what the viper is more known for
EmmericH.
From my understanding his bloodline make forbidden knowledge, obtainable for him, as his bloodline is perception based, like Villy's(formerly the first sage) one with his perfect memory wich make any system censoring pretty much ineffective, the system can't make Villy forget and hide stuff from Jake, that's what I like in how Zog has constructed his system and it's interactions with bloodlines and trancendances
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
EmmericH.
Putting thing in his mouth is kind of his thing, so no surprise here, but it's still freaking dumb idea, but it's his dumb ideas that created eternal hunger, so who's to say it's really that dumb 😂
DirePants
I’ll take some of that action. He manages to swallow it, it doesn’t go well but it works out. Skill upgrade.
Chase Burton
Let’s fucking go!! Tftc!!
King Nereus
That would be funny, another mushroom man! Hah
King Nereus
Atwood? You’re in the wrong universe mister!
King Nereus
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I think this event limits them to their own galaxy, doesn’t it? That said, even so, fair on both counts.
Matthias
is he gonna eat a planet core with palate? xD
PatienceHoney
LOL!!
Matt Spratte
TYFTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerrid Klassen
Is jake going to use his palete oc the malific viper on the core itself and just walk around with that
Ty Cooper
Isn't this also how Jake seems to get all the forbidden knowledge? Just like the Karmic Curse planet core
Steven Myer
Desolation [Mythic] This ability drains all energy and karma permanently from a person, object or area with heavy damage to a user's records. However it can also be used on patreon readers on Thursday to let them know that the author will be destroying their weekend by leaving them with a massive cliff hanger on Friday as Zogarth is known to do. [There is no known way to resist this ability except waiting 72 hours for it to fade. ]
John Durrett
Ok. Hear me out. I read thru the comments and didn't see this posted yet. Recovering from Desolation requires evolution to recover it right? So if Jake takes the planetary core and uses his Harbinger of Primeval Origins.... Jake could give birth to a legendary planet - possibly even one destroyed the the Malefic Viper - which could honestly progress his Heretic status even further!!!! Villy would be soo proud.
John Durrett
If you only knew what Mother has been using her mouth for....you'd find it hard to swallow too. Ha
John Durrett
Right. Not the whole body, only the tasty bits!
John Durrett
I got to thinking though, if he puts it in his special stomach - doesn't he have something in there already he's trying to absorb? Unless he learns to section his stomach off like Sandy.
Burkes
Get jake on that heimdall shit, literally.
John Kinkead
Mad bastard 😂
ItWasIDIO!!
The schemer with aspects of desolation who we only know a few frameworks of a scheme
Jennifer Leigh
Which one? The poison one, the story one, the karmic one or the one that has become Forbidden? Because honestly it could be any, but I'd seriously laugh if 'I' takes out EH and Eversmile is like whoops I set that up so he could be a hero.
William WIlson
Just came up with a theory on what I is, a fungus similar to the giant blue mushroom Jake killed in book 3. That I is basically what could have happened if Jake didn't kill the fungus back in e grade.
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Beckendwarf
That begs the question, whether the Sin Curse of Hunger can eat Desolation. Since the concept is nothingness. Which, as Jake said, is pretty weird
Justin
Not the WHOLE student body!
JJB4345_80_815
Well, if you're okay with him desolating the rest of the student body then yeah sure 😄
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy Zogarth!
JJB4345_80_815
Jake's abnormally strong soul for the win!
JJB4345_80_815
A new universe filled with galaxies each containing trillions of Sentients... Even infinitesimally small odds become more likely. Plus, Jake is versatile, as shown by his performance in Nevermore. Lots of different opponents are perfect for Jake to handle while being horrendous for others.
DirePants
He puts a bit in his stomach for pallet and starts making desolation poisons?
JJB4345_80_815
Jake be crazy 😧🤣
John Balman
Hahahahahaha
TyranT-Rex
@Jake Atwood I think there is still potential for him to implement it into his poisons with his stable arcane mana, and the Vipers skills. Will be interesting to see.
Martin Hájek
One mouthful at a time.
Mat
Planet goes kaboom 💥
Yeslek Nnamhctits
Mmmm Desolate cake
Azayrian105
I think this is the perfect introduction for desolation when it comes to Jake. Also I think this will be a perfect to really reintroduce poisons. For a bit here it has really been just talking more like additive damage more than anything, like a background more than anything, and with desolation we can see how parts of the body can fall apart and off and show how this one can really effect the fights.
Jake Atwood
I feel like this is more important than one would think at first just imagine all the records a planetary core has to examine not to mention the desolation records it has we might be seeing desolation poisons in the future but idk if that would work since it kind goes against desolation
Kyle
Just a small bite of non-existence. What's the worst that could happen?
kingofshibainu
Yeah Jake, eat the planet!
Jordan Rogers
Jakes gonna cause a lot more fear when the rumor spreads he can eat worlds cores, they’re already terrified of the malefic vipers evil chosen..! Would be funny if jake just stole el hakkan’s planets core out from under him, causing him not to be a planetary leader. Which would knock him out of the event!
Thenais
Tasty
Jose Reyna
TFTC
Tommy
TFTC
Lynderyn
MV: How does Jake have a desolated planetary core in your stomach? System entity: I made a mistake. MV: You made a mistake? SE: An entity know as I made a mistake. Jake has eaten 2 cores already…
Azayrian105
I think the closest to a more advanced form is the void.
Valhazstromoz
I wonder if there's an even more advanced form of desolation like "oblivion" or something
Michael Clack
Such a good chapter. I could see Jake regurgitating this core shard for mana rejuvenation in a fight or ritual.
Austin Richins
If you read that last line and didn't chuckle, then think something akin to "classic Jake" or "Fuckin' Jake" then I'm not sure why you're even here.
Kirivina
Pelican is the bird with the extending mouth beak.. Or think of it like from The Mummy when Imotep opens his mouth to swallow all the people in water or sand.
Phasmatic7
Thankies for the chapie zogie!
Rahsheem Reid
Oh lawd
SmokeJam
He's gonna accidentally delete the palate stomach.
Biggy smalls
Here to help! It be funny if when Jake consumes most if not all of this planets core if the planet starts disintegrating around him. He shows up back on earth in the knick of time with Miranda and Arnold looking at him like, "Wtf! The planets gone, what did you do". Jake naturally responds with "What? A guys gotta eat".
Brian Schutt
Pretty sure he finna store it in his tummy for some long term study sessions.
LongMickeyRicky
Incoming arrow of desolation maybe ? Thatd be cool as fuck
Nachotoad
“Jake, what’s that in your mouth?” “…” “What is in your f***ing mouth?!” “…” “You spit that out right now young man” “…” *runs*
King Nereus
This is bad for the universe, but luckily Jake at least has some protection with his scales. Maybe he will gain enough of an understanding from of his bite to develop a counter? Between the desolation and soul-based attack methodology, it sure seems like this enemy was purposely created just for Jake to face, being uniquely qualified to engage with this “I” character. While that is of course probably true since Zog designed it this way, in the context of the story it seems pretty suspect… what are the odds?
ItWasIDIO!!
Ya know I'm having thoughts of a certain schemer pulling some strings
SinCinnamon
Cant wait for Jake to transmute one of the other black planet. Jake Arcane/Origin juice in a core! Plus maybe some poison? His own little garden/playground
SinCinnamon
But with Palate, so it’s totally A OK
DDHG
"Really Jake. Really? You kiss your mother with that mouth" - Random man to Jake with a mouth full of desolation.
Azayrian105
You got yourself a deal there
Zuuuuuri
I’ll take you up on that bet, $10 says that he manages to eat it but doesn’t get a skill upgrade
Xien
He isn’t ?!!!??!! Is he? He is!!!! Damnnnnn son! Thanks Z
mrthorwahl
Jake when encountering Desolation, "Get in ma belleh"
Azayrian105
This man is crazy. $10 says he instantly regrets it and tries to get rid of it but can’t resulting in a skill upgrade.
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Walter Kimberly
Crazy bastard lol
Jason Scott
So chomp the core to get some goodies ya. Why not let Eternal Hunger get some of the action also? I mean it had some soul infused into it right? Plus it's power has to be over 9,000. So the good ol stabby stab should get some come upins.
Conclave
Je know it's a terrible idea. But like always (and that's why we love Jake) he MUST try.
Arieh Sochaczevski
Didn’t Sandy already discover that “void tastes bad”? I’m pretty sure they world be warning Jake off.
Arieh Sochaczevski
Thanks for the chapter! Good boy, Jake! Always eat your vegetables. Even if they burn you from the inside out, it’ll be worth it in the end. The Patreon app used to let me leave comments unfinished, and go back and forth to the text. Now it erases unfinished comments, which makes suggesting edits much harder. If I have time, I’ll try on a desktop.
Mr. Truthly
Kek
Conclave
Thanks. Now I picture a Seagul Jake eating the whole thing and that horrific vision should never leave my mind.
Eduard Marciuc
No no no, that would be ludicrous, he's only gonna chomp on it a tiny bit 😭😂
Conclave
*Commercial Voice* Dont you forget to try our new tasty snack, after some hiking on a devastated planet on the opposite side of your newly integrated universe: The Desolatation Flavor Planetary Core ! Available on only 3 fcking planets in teleportation distance from your home. Taste the unfakable: Nothingness. *The Desolatation Flavor Planetary Core can cause unbelievable pain, erasure from existence and understanding in concept you shouldnt even comprehend on that moment of your Epic Webnovel Saga. The Desolatation Flavor Planetary Core shouldnt be used by pregnant and brestfeeding women.*
JSC
I have been a fan of this series since I bought the first book on Amazon. This is by far my favorite story arc. Thank you !!!!
Hayden Leech
Omnomnomnomnom -Jake Thayne
Biggy smalls
I want to see Jake stuff as much of that core down his gullet as he can!. Maybe he can fit the whole thing? Make it happen Zog! Loved the setup for tomorrow!
n00by_ME
Having learned not to be too much of an idiot, Uh huh. ”Yeah… I should be able to handle a good mouthful of it, at least.” You can recall descriptions of your skills from years ago, why can't you remember a lesson you learned when not even an hour has passed since!?
Dan
One small bite for man, one giant chomp for mankind, I guess lmao
LongMickeyRicky
Jake either fights I because itd be fun, or says leave me the fuck alone and we’re good. Ready for villys info dump on desolation and reaction to eating a desolate planet core
Zogarth
Fix
Zuuuuuri
Jake’s gonna be like “nom… I can feel my soul melting 🫠
Ty Cooper
Lol Jake's going to eat it! I was hoping he would be able to get a Desolation power up to one of the Villy Skills. Of course Desolation potent arrows would be badass.
Luboš Hemala
Will he snack on the Core and the soul?
Anthony
This mofo about to eat a planet. Planetary core. Rotten/desolate planetary core. Wtv. If/When the multiverse finds out, it is going to shit itself while Villy cackles.
denym123
Get some noms, learn some concepts and karma trace I all with one* easy** trick most gods don't want you to know!
Justin saldana
I wonder if Jake gets the planet if he eats the core or override the mana it's giving off 🤔. "Good job Jake adding new planets to your control" -villy 🤣
Kt-x
Thanks for the chapter!
Athena
tftc :) "had been intrincly bound" -> "had been intrinsically bound"
Caleb Fritz
Of course he’s gonna eat the core, he hasn’t done something absolutely stupid in about 30 seconds.
Justin
“I” sounds like he would fit in perfectly at The Order of the Malefic Viper
Kaizen Androck
Time for some indulgent Gluttony then. The Fruit of Desolation isn't enough. Got to eat the core too.
Cory Sauls
This is building to be what I hope is a great fight once they meet each other.
BumAssBumAss
My man about to yonk an entire planetary core.
Paulo Furlaneto
Tftc
Zuuuuuri
I can already see Jake losing an arm and needing to replace it with stable arcane affinity in a fight with I
Stuart Thwaites
Taking a bite out of a planetary core... yummy!
C0bra$
Thank u for the story
Andromeda Adams
Jake is going to learn desolation through palate?! TYFTC!
Rick Delallata
Oh man, here we go again
Bob Burns
He's gonna eat some nothing lmao
Godzilla511
Chomp.
Conclave
OM NOM NOM NOM
Jana
The next conversation with Miranda is going to be fun. “Then I noticed that breathing next to the core was a really bad idea - so I took a bite out of it.”
Lay Nkay
Don't tell me Jake's about to eat this core
Straat Junon
Nom time. tyfc!
Maethrya
Nom nom nom
Burkes
Perhaps Jake will hunt down “I” to kill and extract the concept from? Been a while since he had a good solo hunt if I remember correctly.
Zack Leach
Jake is really embracing the "5 month rule" for dropped natural treasures.
Jana
I wouldn’t have put it past Jake to try and corrupt desolation even more but I guess eating that thing tops my idea by a mile.
Jack
Jake's going to eat the core isn't he
Naotsugu97
Just a small bite! lol! TFTC
Mdcole03
Tftc
Jason Davis
Thanks!
Samuel Granderson
Tftc
Farmingaround
Tytfc! :)
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter
David W. Baijense
Nice. Jake's definitely gonna get a bite of that XD
