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Chapter 865 - Nevermore: Different Points of View (AKA the Laziest Chapter Title Possible)
🕑 Added 2024-03-06 12:02:46 +0000 UTCSo, there were a few things to address.
First of all, the second Twin Emperor turned out to be quite a bit different from the first one. Rather than carrying around a staff and wearing robes, he had on durable metal armor and carried around a massive two-handed sword on his back at all times. While Jake avoided the guy, he was confident that this second half of the Twin Emperor was a far more physical fighter.
Secondly, this entire war was indeed a plot by the Twinhead Ogre. In traditional Nevermore fashion, information could be found just out in the open within the main residence of the second Twinhead Emperor, which Jake had managed to sneak successfully into after the boss left the capital – likely to meet up with his other counterpart.
In the home of the boss, Jake found written records, as well as some books and even communications from the other Twin Emperor, where they discussed what they were doing. To summarize, the Twinhead Ogre wasn’t natively from the Vast Plateau but had ended up there after his own homeworld was invaded, and he used an ancient teleportation circle to try and get away. After arriving on the Plateau, he quickly came to realize there was a severe lack of enemies that would allow him to continue progressing and reach B-grade.
Without evolving, the Twinhead Ogre believed he had a low chance of being able to leave the Plateau to explore the rest of the multiverse, so the two heads hatched a plan of using all the enlightened life in the Vast Plains to fuel their own evolution. At that time, they had clearly been unified in their goal, but when Jake read the notes of the Twin Emperor now, he saw that things had changed.
Jake had been off when he theorized the ritual was to permanently split up. That had never been the plan at all. However, after the split, the Twin Emperors both experienced independence for the first time in their lives, and it turns out they both quite liked it. At least the warrior Twin Emperor also suspected the mage variant also preferred their split state.
Researching more, Jake discovered that even if the warrior variant looked like a pure warrior, he was more akin to a death knight. He was capable of quite powerful death magic, and the bone spheres had been created back when the two of them were still merged into one body, using both of their powers.
Meanwhile, the mage variant was something called a hex shaman. He was capable of using shamanistic magic along with hexes, wherein curses were a sub-category. So, one head focused on physical combat and death magic, while the other focused on shamanistic magic and hexes. A pretty damn strong combo when combined, Jake would reckon.
The problem now was that the two of them didn’t want to fully recombine, which was a bit of a problem if their party wanted to fight a recombined version. Jake even found evidence of the warrior making plans to use his death magic to ”kill” off his counterpart when they did the grand ritual to re-merge and hopefully gain enough Records to reach B-grade. At the same time, Jake didn’t doubt the mage was making similar plans to also get rid of the warrior in a similar fashion, something this warrior version already suspected.
So, yeah, things were a bit of a mess, which spelled problems for Jake and company. If the event boss was the re-merged version of the Twinhead Ogre, they couldn’t make do with one of them ”dying” during the re-merging, as that would undoubtedly weaken the final product. Something this Twin Emperor also fully recognized, but his desire to remain independent made the lower overall power worth it in his head.
Interestingly enough, Jake also found out that the two ogres recognized the presence of Jake and company. There were several correspondences related to their party and how a third party had appeared, but so far, the two Twin Emperors did not seem overly concerned. In fact, they were almost thankful that their party sped up the process of killing everyone, doing such a good job on every battlefield by leaving no one alive. For some reason, the two ogres also felt the need to insult their party for not realizing they were just helping the ritual along, but Jake wasn’t going to get angry about that. He would get even in time.
Jake ended up spending half a day or so going through all the information the warrior Twinhead Ogre had just left spread throughout his home. Some of it was sealed away and hidden, sure, but Jake easily found everything using Sphere.
One could ask why all of these plans and correspondences between the two Twin Emperors were just left all around the place and not destroyed once the warrior had memorized everything, but Jake wasn’t going to question the flawless logic of a Nevermore floor. It hadn’t made sense on any of the prior floors either, so why suddenly get all up in arms over this one?
He managed to sneak out of the second Twin Emperor’s residence before anyone caught him, as Jake moved to meet up with his other party members once more. Sylphie had already rejoined them after helping Jake get most of the way to this other capital, and the four of them were busy making a mess on more of the battlefields.
Time-wise, they were still good. They still had a few months left to finish off this floor and defeat the re-merged Twinhead Ogre. The plan was to fight the strongest version of the Twinhead Ogre possible, and to do that, they reached a conclusion.
”To summarize, firstly, we will clear up all the battlefields to ensure all the Totem Bone Spheres are fully charged. Then, we will allow the two Twin Emperors to collect them, but before or perhaps in the middle of their ritual, we need to make the two of them realize that they need to merge with one another fully to stand a chance against the five of us. If all goes well, we will end up with a Twinhead Ogre fully put back together, further empowered by the ritual. It’s risky, and we may be biting off more than we can chew, but this is the plan,” the Sword Saint nicely explained their plan for finishing off the final Nevermore floor.
A simple plan where a lot could go wrong, with the end result potentially being an event boss far too powerful for them to beat. Yep, Jake was definitely going to enjoy this final floor, especially what would happen over the next few months… because it was time to wipe out all the battlefields and get just a few more levels under his belt.
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Azal cursed under his breath as he looked out at the vast plains in front of him. It did not get better when his party member, the Dungeon Engineer, shook his head as he opened in eyes, having finished his analysis.
”Nope, no way to do it in time,” Casper said with a sigh. ”This floor got two main bosses from what I can sense, and in order to get the best reward, we need to do something with the two of them. Not just kill them both, but something more complicated… and time-consuming.”
”The essence of death is powerful in this world… it’s one suitable for us. However, it has an artificial feeling… as if it’s cultivated. Do we need to finish this cultivation to ensure a perfect victory?” the ghostly bride asked as a few ghosts returned to her, having scouted their immediate surroundings.
”Right… I sense a lot of focus points where both death and curse energy are gathered. As you said, it’s all happening in a rather artificial fashion, so probably someone that’s being done by one of those Twin Emperors,” Casper shook his head again as he looked at Azal. ”Sorry boss, no way to do everything in time.”
Azal couldn’t fault the Dungeon Engineer. They had simply been too slow at passing the prior floors and even made some major mistakes along the way. Especially their attempts to do the event boss on floor seventy-five had been overly ambitious, resulting in the death of one of their comrades and Maltrax having to overuse a certain boosting skill, making her weakened for more than a year afterward. Luckily, the Risen had sent a replacement from one of the other elite teams for their dead party member. This meant another team was crippled by losing a member, but there had simply been no other choice. Azal had been prioritized by the higher-ups; that was the end of it.
My score should still be acceptable in the eyes of the Blightfather,Azal thought. No, hoped. If not, he could potentially lose his title of Ghost King.
As he was standing there considering the situation, his party kept discussing.
”Can’t we just kill these two Twin Emperors and quickly pass the floor that way?” Maltrax, the beastfolk Risen, asked.
”Look at the objective of the floor again. It says to end the conflict, something I doubt just killing one or both of the two Twin Emperors will do,” Casper said. ”It would also just be too easy from a design perspective.”
”Well, fuck,” Maltrax cursed out loud. ”What then? We got a month and a bit left or something like that, right?”
”Right,” Casper confirmed. ”In my opinion, the best way to optimize points would probably be to hunt down at least one of these bosses. While it won’t be as good as clearing the floor, hopefully, it will give us a few achievements. We can also try and do a few bonus objectives, but yeah, the best thing is probably to just kill a Twin Emperor or two. I would assume that’s also the best for levels.”
”Let us do that then,” Azal said with determination. Even if he doubted he would be able to take the top spot of the Leaderboards as his Patron had hoped, he would, at the very least, do his best till the very end.
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Jacob relaxed on the fourteenth City Floor, sitting and drinking tea with Bertram as he waited for more members of the Holy Church to come to see him. His former bodyguard and current Guardian had a tentative look on his face as he looked at the teacup in front of him.
”You’re really satisfied with this?” he asked after a bit.
”It was for the best,” Jacob sighed, having had a similar conversation like this before. ”We can do more good here, helping those who have questions or are beginning to doubt if their Path needs improvement. Especially as most finish all the Challenge Dungeons on this floor, it’s the best place to have these conversations.”
”Hmph,” Bertram just grunted, not entirely satisfied with the answer.
Jacob understood… Bertram was a fighter. However, Jacob wasn’t. While the two of them were bound by the unique bond between a Guardian and an Augur, they were still two separate people with their own Truesouls. This meant they took up two spots in the Nevermore party, and that sadly made them burdens.
In the earlier floors, this wasn’t really a problem, as Jacob’s abilities as an Augur were highly valuable, allowing them to often skip many time-consuming steps. Back then, the true difficulty had been in pure navigation and figuring out the floors. Now, the difficulty was in the actual fights.
Bertram and Jacob could pull off some interesting moves, considering Bertram’s near-immortality and ability to be resurrected repeatedly. He could use boosting skills far beyond where one would die and wield powerful weapons such as a Holy Sword to be a true pinnacle fighter for difficult fights.
The problem arose when every fight was a dangerous one. In his basic state, Bertram was only a good warrior. He was skilled for sure and was considered an elite, but compared to the others they had in their party, Jacob and Bertram simply fell too far behind.
That’s why it had been decided that Jacob and Bertram’s Nevermore journey would end here, not going to floor seventy-one. Instead, they had been replaced by two others from the Holy Church. In fact, the Church had split up their entire party and made one with the five best prospects to go as far as they could during the final decade or so. It would be the very best the Holy Church could muster for this early era of Nevermore, and hopefully, it would be enough.
Meanwhile, Jacob would stay back and help guide people until this decade expired and it was time for him to leave. One could question why he didn’t try and do some more floors to at least gain a few more levels, but to someone like Jacob, staying back on the City Floor was better even for that. He would gain more experience acting like an Augur for a decade compared to doing more floors.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the higher-ups believed it best Jacob didn’t take more risks. On floor sixty-eight, he had trigged his One More Light skill, which had resurrected him once after death. The skill gave him one charge per grade, and while he did have one more left as he didn’t die in D-grade, the Church believed it too risky for him to continue. His death back then had come when they pulled off one of their special strategies with Bertram, leaving Jacob defenseless as he was killed by a regular monster no one had seen coming.
”Hey, at least I have some positive news,” Jacob said with a smile. ”I have ensured we will be able to go back to Earth when the Prima Guardian arrives. I didn’t even have to act like this would be my compromise for not making a fuss over being told to stay on the City Floor.”
”Oh?” Bertram said with surprise. ”That is good news… I hope everyone is doing well back home.”
”Based on what I heard, things are just fine,” Jacob answered. ”My father is even part of their World Council running things in place of Jake having to actually do any work as a World Leader.”
”Definitely for the best. Not the thing about your father, but that Jake isn’t running things all on his own. Doubt that would end well.”
”For sure,” Jacob said with a look of nostalgia.
The two of them tended to avoid talking about Earth as it was a sore subject for both of them. Jacob didn’t like how he had borderline been fooled into leaving before Ell’Hakan had made his invasion, much less that the Holy Church had taken advantage of this invasion to force the Risen off the planet.
At least he had learned that the Holy Church had expected to be able to remain and still have some presence, even if it wouldn’t be prominent or displayed openly. Efforts Miranda had managed to crush, as the planet was nearly entirely dark to the eyes of the Holy Church now after almost all of the people affiliated with them were removed.
Perhaps for the better. No matter how involved Jacob got with the Holy Church, he still cared about his home planet and the people from it, and he genuinely hoped they were all doing well.
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Carmen didn’t like being forced to spend time with more people she didn’t know, but at least the three of them were more skilled than their former party members. Plus, at least they were doing fun group activities.
Davion, their party leader, rushed forward as the four others followed into the battlefield, where they became a machine of death. While clearing all of floor eighty would be a stretch, they sure as hell should be able to get in quite a few good fights.
Moving swiftly, Carmen took the frontal position as they were noticed by a group of enemies. A few dozen spells flew toward them, Carmen just smiling as she took the magic head-on. It didn’t even manage to leave a mark on her body as she punched a particularly large fireball apart before continuing to pummel the mage who had cast it.
Two warriors attack from behind as their blades hit her back. The large clang of metal hitting something tougher than itself sounded out as Carmen turned with a grin and punched one of them in the throat before kicking the other in the stomach, sending him tumbling back into the two-handed blade of Davion, who cut him in two.
Flashing him a grin, Carmen turned to face more as she took every hit without a care in the world, the level 300 foes far from capable of piercing her natural resistance. Especially not the casters. Ah, but there were a few who could maybe nick her a bit here and there so she could still have some fun.
Her three other party members also went hard. A shaman with a dozen or so summoned fire and earth elementals was practically a one-woman army, as she wielded her own staff to shoot out torrents of lava to burn her enemies. A caster that didn’t really fit into the usual Valhal archetype cast spirit magic to buff their party members up and act as a healer, while a third guy wielded a massive great bow to shoot devastating arrows. He wasn’t as good as Jake, but he was decent enough.
Their party had been shuffled up a bit after doing all the Challenge Dungeons, resulting in only Davion and Carmen continuing in the ”elite” group. While Carmen hadn’t been a fan of this shuffle initially, she had to recognize it was probably for the better, as there was no fucking way they would have made it to floor eighty with their old group.
Not that they would beat it… but at least Carmen would have a good time until the very end of Nevermore by punching her way through a few dozen active battlefields.
Comments
Only_Sams
Nope, the laziest chapter titles are the ones that aren’t named. Like all of mine lmao good writing Zogarth.
Endless Nature
Thanks for the chapter
Hunter Thornton
Welp I figured the holy church would bitch out, but the risen ought to have a field day on floor 80. Especially Casper who has both curse and death affinity. Not too surprising about valhal. I mean their leader only gets excited about a good brew or a good fight. Still say Vlady and Jake ought to collaborate on makin a brew together
TwistedVanity
I agree with Mownmbasa. Sooo many potential threads too weave. I especially look forwards to Jake and the first sages meeting. And I should point out, everyone hates eversmile and he hates jake, but remember he owes The Viper a favour!
TwistedVanity
It's a good chapter. However I had hoped that jakes party would have been standout enough to complete more floors than anyone else. Showing they are the best of the best. With the time stuff the sword Saint did I was expecting them to go further than everyone else for the wow factor
TSMS
At the start of the Nevermore Arc when they saw the leaderboard already filled with people achieving very low scores, it's explained that the Holy Church sends out people in very early and as soon they reach the first city floor, they enter time chambers that speed up their relative time to get out of nevermore very quickly. What the team experienced was the opposite, so their stay should be extended (relative to the other teams entering around the same time).
Josh Hietpas
You forgot about jake bangin a goddess, or at least the image of one, who is currently watching him with stars in her eyes, especially after he protected her from the presence of valdemar in the dick… i mean aura, measuring contest
Olof Karlsson
Thanks for the chapter!
Josh Hietpas
Nah, it goes based off your relative time as its linked to your soul. So even though they cheesed the level by speeding it up, they will all spend 50 years total from their point of view in nevermore. All that would/could happen is jakes team got farther than cheetos team as they cheesed the floor, that being said, they cheeto cheesed minagas city floor so it may be about the same floor wise
Sam Rosenberg
This was a great chapter. Getting the other perspectives on how the dungeon is done makes what our team is doing that much cooler
Omar Jimenez
With regards to Jake, I doubt he’d bring a woman to his house in the first place? So far, he’s only been intimate with Carmen and Irin; and he’s made it clear it’s a casual, friends with benefits situation. Hell, he doesn’t even chase after them; they seduce him each time. Plus, currently he can’t even bring Carmen to the Order, much less his house. As for Irin, they’ve only had one tryst so far, at that hotel. While Irin is totally DTF anytime, anywhere, that doesn’t mean Jake’s going to have her be a regular in his bed. Furthermore, I don’t think Jake feels guilty about Meira’s feelings for him. He’s just been uncomfortable with the power imbalance between the two of them, while also not thinking of Meira in a romantic or sexual way. As far as we’ve seen, anyway. I do expect the girls’ bitch sessions to stop, or at least move out of Jake’s house once he’s back, though. And yeah, he and Meira need to talk about Meira becoming Duskleaf’s Chosen and what that means for their living and work arrangement.
Micah Molina
Yup. People need to remember the 50 year time limit is only truly important for those competing on the Leaderboards. People like Miranda, they are aware its less important. Meaning, factions most likely can hire people with less potential to level high to be runners. Essentially paying them to be runners.
Micah Molina
That's a good point. Politics are yucky lol. Even still, regardless that EH is kind of a jerk, he's going to place high, meaning his party members will gain points and prestige, even if it's an unpleasant look.
TSMS
A few floors back, the Sword Sage put up a bubble where time moved slower for the team and they saved 8 or so months. Most contenders for the top spot on the ladder went in around the same time as Jake and team. Does that mean that most other teams will emerge earlier than them by a few months in Evermore-time and at least a few days in normal time? That would mean, while Ell'Hakan entered after Jake, he'll emerge sooner and probably take top spot on the ladder temporarily. I hope YoY and EH make a move right before Jake leaves Nevermore and immediately rewrites their story.
Vega
Nah Meira annoys me. Jake’s never going to be able to bring any girls over to his own damn house without feeling guilty or having to justify himself to her
austin kutz
He probably talks them through their issues then kills them. Still can't match Jake since his multipliers aren't as high
TimeDrawsNigh
Surprised there was no pov of Ell’Hakan
SqrlyGrly
I wonder if Jake's actions in nevermore would make it harder for EH to get a replacement teammate since they were all negotiated for him by Yip of Yap. The various fractions might not be as open to helping his opponent if it means it is harder to get on Jake's good side.
Peter Smith
I think each party member is scored based on how they did in their subsequent parties for their individual set of points, and then the splits are added together for their final party. So for the church and the risen only the final party will be considered on the board with their points gathered from the individual scores of their party members, while jakes is counted wholesale because they didnt need to split up.
Peter Smith
Ooh we need a dragon to join the harem as well. Obviously she would need to be special in some way but it would awesome. Speaking of which i forgot the current count for his harem i remember hes got his elf and his succubus i just cant remember who else we (the fans) have determined will join his bed.
Peter Smith
Nah its the two sides of stability... Which i just realized is just the mana version of his "jake juice" that allowed him to manipulate the universe by making a stable instability in the form of a void point... Jake is just an oversized Zipper...
Allan
Also I do agree on the fact that Eversmile may not be as malicious as he seems. From where I’m sitting, he seems like an extremely dedicated researcher willing to do extremely inhumane stuff which also mostly make no sense to progress his knowledge. Which kind of makes sense as he is a doppelgänger which is a monster, and from his point of view, he is simply doing experiments to learn more ablout karma, nothing more, nothing less. Also, according to the endless empire, the primordials do seem like they aren’t really on hostile terms, with them avoiding conflicts of interest, and the fact that Eversmile stated he wasn’t doing anything he considered against his patron. Shit, with his talk with yore, he seems to view the entire situation as a game and is looking to see how the Viper will react as opposed to actually going against, moreover from how Villy talked about him, it might even just be the two primordials making a large scheme for some weird goal.
Allan
Back during the early posts of Zogarth, there were side stories he wrote, and there is a poem of sorts among them written by a fanatic of the primordial church which contains information about the primordials, this is during the early 100 chapters though and I don’t think the plot was fully ironed out, so there may be some details amiss here and there such as the star seizing titan not being a unique lifeform, but other wise some very accurate information, there is also descriptions of two bloodline holders, one being natures attendant and the other being an unfortunate soul who couldn’t harness the true power of her bloodline.
Ty Cooper
I want eternal hunger to suck up all the curse energy to mess up the twin's plan causing them to have to merge and fight the team.
Anthony Smith
Allan
With nothing else to do, I would like to point out the forgotten dungeon granted to Jake by Minaga. And by my magnanimous, you may thank me for reminding you all of something you would’ve no doubt forgotten with a like.
Bobby B
TFTC
Bobby B
Ty Cooper. Slow lane? I feel like I’m in LA gridlock. I should go back to my old version of reading these chapters. Wait to read all the week’s chapters on Friday. It takes a huge amount of willpower but I only get ONE cliffhanger a week😂
Anthony Smith
I smell a cliff in my future, maybe 2 days or so.
Mownmbasa
Rereading the story again i came across Jake's evolution in C grade and specifically his race evolution. This time around i read it more carefully and it makes me extremely ecstatic at the prospect of seeing what type of evolved form of human he evolves into and how does his bloodline changes. It's coming at a point when things get real with a lot of threads coming to fruition and the more i revisit the story the more snipets i see. I just hope that Zogarth has a table to keep track of all these superb nuggets he planted and plans on following up on them. If anything by me commenting i will be like a reminder haha! Also we still have a few Primordials that haven't met Jake like Rigoria and the Starseizing titan, Yggdrasil or other prominent gods like Umbra and Autarch (side note i think they are interesting gods to know) and maybe even some groveling from the Dragon Accords now that they realised who Jake is and try to fanboy over him by apologizing profusely. So many interesting characters developed in this story, i swear is richer than cheese cake in flavor. I can actually lose count of characters i can identify clearly with specific characteristics. I know everyone hates Eversmile but i got a feeling he has more depth to him and its by design from Zogarth. Wouldn't surprise me if he isn't in on the scheme on Viper's side against Yip. So many threads... Delicios...
Erik Leiden
210, but with points for level gain in the dungeon. Though I'm not sure if that snippet from 200+ levels ago will stick around in the final cut.
Acaeluse
They can communicate, all the city floors have reps from the big powers and people can leave and enter Nevermore during their journey. Their time counter keeps ticking tho.
Ral
Jake's finds plans for the boss to evolve into a B Grade. Jake and party - "Na we want a B Grade with two heads!"
Ral
Dungeon difficulty scales with the amount of people in your party and only the full 5 man party qualify/have a chance for the leaderboards.
Ral
I don't know about a point gain benefit VS an experience gain benefits. However you had to be under level 210 or 220 to be aloud to compete in the leaderboards.
Micah Molina
SS actually coming in clutch. They gained about 6 months iirc. That's pretty huge if accurate, they might not have had enough time for floor 80.
Numbzy
Any decision that members of the Holy Church either is, or would be supported by the Holy Mother since its definitely not a democracy. So the Holy Priestess grouping with EH should be taken as the Holy Mother "supporting" YoY. Plausible deniability doesn't really exist in many of these pantheons. But conversely, who is going to raise it as an issue to the Holy Mother personally? With her position, she's obviously frighteningly powerful. Presumably this is Vilas making it seem like he's up against more than just Vladamar.
Micah Molina
The city floors, you can access all prior city floors thru them iirc. Every floor has like embassies, which probably have runners to communicate. It's like how Jake always stays at an Order establishment. The Order is just undermanned due to the Villy's past absence. Edit: also I'm sure all the factions have protocols in place if a party loses a member or they project a member need ls to be replaced before hand.
Erik Leiden
Curious to see how much level gain during Nevermore matters. It was stated that entering closer to lvl 200 has a point gain benefit, but Jake is also explicitly disadvantaged in leveling compared to others.
joel southard
Nice thank you for the chapter
Ty Cooper
Which yip will try to use in some way as cheeto stays the underdog till the final battle. Jake just keeps messing their story up by just being himself.
Trevor Mergen
Thanks
Ty Cooper
I think they all have that score individually until they separate for challenging dungeons. Each for give the individual the same amount at the end of each floor.
Captain the Red Beard
Eww, no. That would leave it too close and the Cheeto could use that somehow. This has to be a blowout.
Killinger Ryan
Time dilation for the win!
Ryan Ulrich
Also, how do team points work in Nevermore when you drop some people for other teammates later on?
Ryan Ulrich
Everybody now, chant it until the Leaderboard Chapter is published: Single Point Victory, Single Point Victory, SINGLE POINT VICTORY!!!
ItWasIDIO!!
Jacob please develop better why are you even here & "care" ha
Joe Black
They can leave on system floors it just keeps the clock running at the increased speed outside so its not something the elites do.
Micah Molina
Not losing a teammate throughout Nevermore seems to be a challenge in itself but when you also add teams replacing members based on performance, like in this chapter, it seems rare for teams to start and end Nevermore without replacement.
Tyler S.
Others can enter/exit on the city floors and gain faction information before then reporting to those inside
TwoMoreYears
It would be nice. I’m just interested in seeing what names are on the all time leaderboard.
TwoMoreYears
That would be hilarious
JohnSnowden
I'm guessing they have people who leave and return regularly so that they can communicate with the higher ups and pass the information back to the people in the dungeon
JohnSnowden
I'm guessing he wins by the single point that minaga awarded them
jazz
Shit they probably just sent someone in with a message. Unlimited supply of c grade fodder
Bent Sommer
But it would be fun when jake comes back home and meira is still in nevermore or wherever so jake must handle meiras siblings
Ty Cooper
I really want Jake to beat yip's score on the all time leaderboard
TwoMoreYears
You may consider it lazy but I enjoy getting updates on some of the side characters. I wasn’t expecting it until time ran out in nevermore but it’s still fun. We’ve reached a very odd point in the story where it’s hard not look ahead. I’m definitely looking forward to the results on the leaderboard, seeing peoples reactions, and finding out about this all time leaderboard.
Mat
As for Meira family I hope she took them to her own assigned residence cause Villy and Duskleaf random visits will be to much
Mat
I guess everything is possible when the price is right. System rules can always be bent
Jason Hardman
I'm guessing at this point, with the elite contenders tapping out on floor 80, that when the points reveal comes Ell'hakan will edge out Jake for the top spot, perhaps even having gotten to floor 81, but when the multipliers are revealed Jake will swing up to the top spot. Nevermore will probably split the reveal of points and final adjusted points just to build tension like that.
Ty Cooper
How do the teams communicate with the higher ups for all these team shake-ups? I thought they couldn't communicate with the outside.
Ty Cooper
That sounds very possible. The extra bonuses that is. Not loosing a teammate could be one also, but I could see that going to Dina as the healer. Lots of possibilities there
Omar Jimenez
On the one hand, I just want to keep the story moving so the Nevermore arc can finally end. On the other hand, how’s Meira settling in as Duskleaf’s Chosen? Did her family move into her house in Jake’s compound? How is Izil being pressured by her empire now that she’s a close relation to TWO Chosen? Small questions that don’t affect the story, like at all, but that I really need answered.
Ty Cooper
Welcome to the slow lane. I kinda did the same thing but with audible so I at least was limited to a comfortable listen pace. But soon as I was out of audible books I smashed through them online and have been at the crawl ever since.
Micah Molina
I wonder if Ell'Hakan dropped any of his teammates? He hinted early on while he was happy with them, he was only impressed by the one from the Holy Church. Makes me wonder if he kicked a couple to get those two 90% earners, the female dragonkin and the demon? I'm pretty sure there might be final overall achievements. Maybe even leading to extra bonus Nevermore percentage point boosts? It would be super awesome if there was an achievement for doing well, while not having to replace a team member. That way SS and Dina still have a shot at the Leaderboards even if its bottom 5.
David Ballantyne
I picked up the first book on Kindle on February 8th, and now after almost a month of reading I am out of backlogged story. Feels both good and bad to not have more to read in one go!
Micah Molina
Just because Yip made a deal with the Holy Church, does not automatically mean it was with the Holy Mother. It's the largest faction, the deal could have been done with any number of high-ranking gods from the Church. I imagine its actually possible that the Holy Mother might have actual plausible deniability, since its possible she didn't know about it until after the deal was made.
Decibel790
Tftc!
Numbzy
I mean, it's heavily implied that Vilas was partially responsible for YoY being able to secure the party members for EH. The Holy Mother clearly has a lot of personal history with Vilas, and the United Beast Trible also sent a member, but we know they want to get on Jake's good side. Whether that's to back stab EH or not, we have no idea. I personally have the idea that his team will "fail" at the end forcing him to have a worse score and title.
Ty Cooper
Looking forward to the final % bonus. I really hope Jake just destroys EH's score. I don't want it to be close. I would love it if Jake smashes yip's score for the all time best scores.
Ty Cooper
I am looking forward to them getting another % boost for the final battle. I really hope he is not close to EH. I want Jake to smash EH's score and even leaving yip's score in the dust for the all time best scores.
Ty Cooper
I think it is just for the event. Would be totally suspicious if they didn't mention how no embassy or anything would be on earth.
Jason Bradford
Finally!!!
Vega
Great to see Carmen again
Athena
tftc :) "so probably someone that’s being done" -> "so probably something that’s being done" "Two warriors attack from behind as their blades hit her back." -> "Two warriors attacked from behind, their blades hitting her back."
JJB4345_80_815
Friendly possible edits: "On floor sixty-eight, he had trigged his One More Light skill," I believe that "trigged" is supposed to be "triggered" "Two warriors attack from behind as their blades hit her back." I believe "attack" should be "attacked"
Jana
OP - would work as well and even describe some chapters quite well :-P
Frederik
Nm:Eh
JJB4345_80_815
Laziest chapter title: "Nevermore: Eh"
JJB4345_80_815
Yes, thank you for the chappy, Zogarth!
Namorat
I always enjoy reading about the other groups and POVs :)
SchwarzWeiß
Curious how welcom Jacob will be on earth ... Also what's the churchs goal doing it, with the holy Church suporting ElHakan at least a little with his Party member in nevermore im suspicious ...
Allan
Alright we’re going to have 1 last final fight chapter then it’s done with a big cliffhanger on Friday.
Ryan Ulrich
Only make sense Jake’s party is ahead time wise since SS can make a hyperbolic time Chamber
brennon Petersen
Tftc!
BerciTheBeast
TFTC!
John Balman
Yep, always a fun way to start the morning
Themo Grulld
What a title , looked like good pov's.
Zizawah
Looks like Jake and co are doing better than Azal/Casper and Carmen’s groups. Poor Jacob and Bertram! A long time before they get to come back to Earth.
Zogarth
Fix
DBOMB YO
It was nice to see a little of how the others are doing, although I really can't wait to see how high Jakes points are! Although I also know you're going to make it after the weekend -_-
Joshua Morris
I don't know why but I need that aka part of the title keep in when this part becomes a audio book.
Josh Meneely
"...why suddenly get all up in hands over this one?". I think you mean up in arms.
Jana
The chapter Titel is a lie. Name it Different PoVs if you want it lazy and I m in :-P
C0bra$
Thank u
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
BumAssBumAss
Thanks for the chapter!
