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NilZx

Tftc

Loststar7

TFTC and Happy Friday

C0bra$

Thank u for the story

Mat

Oh boy… Jake is not the second coming of Villy but I suspect that some will found out why they are best buds.

Matthew Monroe

Titch, now appears the sea snake blessed by villy

Evan Zablocki

And the cliff strikes again but such is life. Tyftc.

Michael Fannon

"Only nerds write books"? Yes, and Jake is an alchemy nerd. Also, I feel called out.

DeAndrea H

“Only nerds write books.” Jake, sweetie, didn’t you write the Grimoire of the Heretic Chosen? I love that Jake fights against being a nerd when he totally is a nerd. I wonder what Villy is foreseeing? And I love that he thought of his oath to Jake but was like “nah, bestie. Not this soon…” TFTC!

Noah Mclelland

Imagine villy somehow reached out to the A grade snake to help out Jake.

Fyrtue

Snake god calling in big new snake friends from Venus for the assist. Love to see it.

Rewdan

I think Villy may have reached out to the snake or he’s sent Scarlet

Dan Greaves

TYFTC Really enjoying this arc. I honestly can't wait to see how you bring the Seat of Exalted Prima, Sage's Meditation/revisiting the 1st Sage, Minor world all together.

Burkes

Jake so right. Only nerds write books. Couldn’t imagine anyone doing that.

Rewdan

Thanks Zogarth it’s been a great week’s reading and the cliffhanger isn’t too bad.

Dylan Hilliard

Ohh no. Snake A grade is probably there. I also bet a few other factions were there, maybe even some factions from the great lake. I'm excited to see what else lives there. Maybe a race of gators, or something funny/ scary blood sucking mosquitos.

Misa

Tftc

Dave

Tftc

Tr0LLach

Very kind of Villy to bless the Big Snake

CallHimDan

Another excellent cliffhanger, see you all Monday.

TeeyTeey

cruel ass cliffhanger

TyranT-Rex

Hahaha Zogarth calling himself a nerd for writing this book I love it.

JW Saxby

HA! “Writing books is for nerds” lmfao 🤣 Also I need more! Why does every chapter feel like a cliffhanger bro, I’m tweaking for more already 😂 Tyftc 🍻

Daniel Brian

Only nerds write books. 😂

Igneas

I'm gonna guess Villy probably blessed the big danger noodle we heard about.

BobbyMcDilan

It is believed that jupiter is a liquid planet not a gas planet

Xerecs

I'm pretty sure Villy has been tossing his blessing around somewhat strategically to bring together the nomadic snakes under the big sea snake we've heard mentioned. Essentially creating a third faction to back his chosen. So i'm expecting as you said he's going to be meeting that noodle next chapter.

Michael

Did Villy mobilize the snake brigade?

Matthew Smith

It's the snake that was already strong as fuck but now also blessed by Villy to tilt the scales in his favour (Also that 100% counts as a pun). Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Villy sent out a divine message and told him the snake to bring a bunch of other powerhouses to x location and make sure Jake doesn't get killed trying to make friends.

Michael

Can Villy actually do that? Aren’t there a lot of restrictions?

brjenness

Yes. I knew zog would be inspired by my suggestions and bring the poison hippo herd to see what was going on. I called it. In all seriousness, I'm guessing Jake won't need to bless big snake brother because villy already did.

Xander

TFTC :) Good on Jake for giving the shaman a new fantastic point of view :D Have a great weekend all Suggested edits: "it probably only seemed like *much* due to his recent " missing "too"? or maybe should be "a lot" " “The universe is like *the* Minor World, just so much bigger and *different*," I feel it should be "your Minor world" and "more varied" here. Much stronger suggestion on the second. The first is probably just personal preference for me. "and the *Arachne* Lord." should be "Arachnec", right? I get confused with the names. "Even that answer Jake *was* entirely sure of, " should be "wasn't"

brjenness

Gas giant...but I haven't been there in ages, so maybe it upgraded? I once had the hardest time convincing people that the moon was made from rock instead of cheese.

Davan Krueger

I wonder how the snakes are doing down there with the frogs

Kevin Hargett

Really wondering how Jake knows that Miranda has started her system event, does that mean Jake isn’t apart of this system event? Did I miss something?

brjenness

I'm canceling my subscription because of that nerdophobic comment. It's the 2020's. I thought we were past such things. I threw my pocket protector across the room it made me so angry. And let's be honest, being addicted to Cliffhangers is the sign of a true nerd.

Dan

They're currently trying to earn their spots as administrators, while Jake already earned his. I believe the world leaders in the chimera event were the ones to get the automatic upgrade, while those that contributed greatly became administrator candidates and have to perform well enough in their current event to become full administrators

NovaZero

I was thinking time acceleration....

Vega

Nice. I’m guessing Villy blessed the sea serpent?

Andrew

Each day is like a sentence of progress, I think I need to take a break and let some chapters pile up.

brjenness

For the main event, I want a primordial watch party. Mistaken assumptions on Jake's capability to make dumb decisions and still pull things out in the end. Petty squabbles. Lovers pretending to hate each other as their factions are in a Neverending war. Valdemar trying to steal jake.

djthomp

250 certainly makes a lot more sense in these circumstances than 3. I wonder if that'll continue to scale up once there's somebody powerful enough in the 93rd to bring the A-grades out. Here's hoping for a blessed big snake on Monday.

Jordan Rogers

Divine blessing of the malefic viper, for being an extra good snaky and eating the kritters trying to kill his chosey wosey

UNKNOWN

Did Zogarth call himself a nerd?

JB

I'm surprised Jake didn't get a title for being the first to enter a minor world and/or bringing new in habitents to the universe

Fdrugc

Tftc I'm getting the small change was blessing a certain snake.

Crysus

Self burn. Those are rare

ABTelford

Hehe, love to see Villy’s take on Jake’s handling of the situation. Because, yea, returning to the clutches of all those A grades is…unwise. But Villy’s letting it happen for the entertainment. Lol!

Suzanne Pearson

If Villy sent Scarlett that would be soooooo much fun!

zran

likely he will give a divine blessing to the sea snake to boss over him to protect jake

ABTelford

Yea. A lot of exposition for “wow cool.”should we head back?” “Yes”. But still, glad for the read.,

Blaine Henderson

My guess is that the minor world also has time dilation and that the group has been gone longer than a few hours.

Prospects

She isn’t even stronger than Jake anymore, how would that help the situation?

Summer Coff

"Only nerds wrote books." Hah, this caught me off guard. You're not usually so meta.

Summer Coff

Way I see it, he's done so much better than expected so far that he was due a Jake Moment or two. That being said, he did already tell those A grades (and prove to them) that he was under the protection of someone much stronger than them. He just underestimated how stupid some powerful people can be.

Beemoss

Tftc

Josie

Viper looks on with exacerbation "he's an idiot, but he's my idiot. And no puny, ign'ant mortal gets to snuff him out" proceeds to summon legendry sea monster to be this moron's body guard

Sylphie

Ree!

brjenness

villy pretending he's trying to protect jake when he's actually just wanted to embarrass him by having the seat snake bow to him in front of his new friends.

brjenness

off topic, but part of the reason Jake's class is so hard to level is to keep him close to our favorite characters. well, that and make sure he has the records to reach godhood when he gets there. commence tomato throwing

Adam

Nah he sent Minaga

James Lucas

It's Friday isn't it? Damn it hangers of cliffs.

Josie

it would actually make a lot of sense for a ton of B grade snakes to be the next batch to leave. They can act as enforcers outside of Venus to make sure the other B grade factions behave. Especially since earth is going to be relatively undefended with the Event going on, Jake's gonna disappear soon too

Josie

Hmm. Jake could still throw down a teleport pad here in Venus and take newly integrated batches of Forerunners directly to Primordial 4. Some blessed snakes could even help him build a big one He could easily sell that plan as Primordial 4 is a gateway nexus of sorts and the best place for them to learn about the multiverse Less risk to Earth, faster integration for the newbs. Win win

Lemonsqueezy

It keeps him close in level, but not power. Jake is still ridiculously more powerful than most people in the 93rd and many in the multiverse. There are those that could be considered close in the 93rd, but definitely not more powerful. Each level Jake gets is worth more in power than what others get. Jake's way of levelling requires him to fight things that are a challenge, so just going out and mass killing weak creatures of the same level just do not work well. I think as time progresses we are going to start seeing Jake greatly surpass those around him. I am also expecting that a lot of these characters will start reaching points where they cannot break through to the next grade. Jake still hasn't gotten a race quest, and his class and profession quests have been completed by the time he needs to evolve. This has granted him the ability to immediately evolve as soon as he gets to the required level. This hasn't been the case for others. This has been made up by them reaching the level requirement sooner than Jake, but then being slowed down by quests. So I am expecting that when A-Grade comes around a lot of these characters will take an eternity to evolve if they ever do so. Some might even decide not to pursue it as fervently as Jake does. Jake also has the benefit of being the Chosen of a very powerful Primordial. He has all his needs taken care of and can be introduced to dungeons to help him level. We have already seen situations where previous characters are no longer talked about. Arthur, William, Casper, Sylphie, the warpsnatcher, and many other are just not really talked about anymore. They only come up in passing, or small paragraphs. Eventually we are only going to see other Chosen of primordials. At least that is my opinion.

Ron C

Bet you he blessed the leviathan and put him on guard duty.

Lemonsqueezy

I think Zog has hinted that the pad won't work in the minor world yet. I guess we will have to see. I think we are about to get introduced to the head snake dude.

Lemonsqueezy

The snakes are definitely going to align with the Order. Which will automatically make the big snake guy immediately fall under Jake. As a Chosen Jake is pretty much the second-in-command for the Order. I do not know about bringing a shit-ton of them out of the boundary. I think Jake is more likely to keep everything even between the factions. It just seems like a Jake thing to do. We can only wait and see, I think that whatever Villy has planned is what will determine how things proceed.

Lemonsqueezy

This one isn't too bad. We all knew that the Snakes would eventually be involved. The big cliff is what Villy has up his sleeve.

Lemonsqueezy

Hmm, possibly. I think it is more about the fact that the head honcho snake has arrived on scene. If time-dilation was a thing here, I doubt everyone would be still standing around waiting. Also it wouldn't make sense because this minor world is supposed to eventually fully integrate with the 93rd and the boundary will come down.

Jeryd Greer

This is interesting. I hope

Lemonsqueezy

That is my guess too. Villy's way of telling this head honcho snake guy to either bow before him (and in turn Jake) or suffer the consequences.

Lemonsqueezy

It is entirely possible that he isn't the first in the 93rd. There is the possibility that a different minor world was significantly easier to integrate with the multiverse. Could have been a minor world full of weak creatures below C-Grade. Either that or Zog didn't think of or want to give a title by doing it. Or maybe Jake has to fully integrate the minor world before he gets the title. Or even he has to get the minor world to ally or fall under his rule.

Lemonsqueezy

Entirely possible. My best guest attendees is the Blight Father, Yggdrasil, and Eversmile because he just has to be involved in everything. Valdemar is another good one specifically because of his interest in what Jake is up to. I cannot think of any reason any of the others would be interested other than just curiosity. On the opposite argument, Villy is quite protective of Jake and he might not want them to even be aware of what is going on.

Lemonsqueezy

My guess too. Good way to get Jake a nice and powerful protector against these A-Grades.

Lemonsqueezy

It just wouldn't work IMO. The minor world will eventually be fully integrated and the boundary will drop. Then you factor in the fact of if there was time-dilation why would everyone still be standing there waiting. Especially a bunch of the most powerful A-Grades on the minor world.

Tomer Yud

omg I want to keep reading!

Lemonsqueezy

Was it ever stated on how many factions there are on this minor world? Someone in a previous chapter said 5, but I do not remember reading it. So far I have counted 4 if you consider the bog-lord creature at the beginning of the arc to be one. We have Frogs, Undead Spiders, and snakes. They all seem to be poison related creatures, or at least capable of being poisonous or venomous. Which seems fitting for the toxic nature of Venus and this minor world. So if there is another faction it would probably be something that also fits into that category. I am thinking it is only really 3 because those are the only ones that have been mentioned or Jake has met so far. The bog-lords just seem to be unintelligent creatures and locked to being in the ocean. I do not see them being able to fly out of the boundary.

Eden

Knew friday had to be a big cliff

Noah Cullinane

“Only nerds wrote books.” - Jake, the author of a Grimoire and now self proclaimed nerd.

JayseKnyte

Villy definitely blessed the snake people and the sea serpant. Maybe told the blightfather about the arachnacs too

Nathan Holliday

At least Villy is looking out for Jake. I bet he blessed that snake that turns out to be the most powerful person on the planet.

jjjm

haha i thought this was zogarth taking a dig at himself

Takoda Heitz

Why you gotta dis my boy Zog, Zog. That’s totally uncalled for. I’m definitely telling Zog.

Fleetpanda

Jake’s main mistake: assuming he was talking to the people in charge. He should have at least waited for the snake guys to come back

joel southard

Thank you for the chapter

Bookreader97

Villy totally already blessed the snake

Bookreader97

Kinda hope it’s an entirely different race we haven’t seen introduced yet

Lemonsqueezy

It is possible i guess, but I think the general consensus is that it is the big bad snake dude.

brjenness

I think it was aimed at the fool who wrote a fanfic insinuating zog kept a monkey harem. makes sense in a "me thinks thou doest protest too much" kinda way, but the guy was a complete lunatic.

Alexandre8901

Blessing week-end cliff...

ABTelford

It’s funny how everyone assumes the big ocean snake has come. I doubt those B grade minions have had time to reach him let alone for him to decide to come out for a look see. I’ll bet it’s more that each side called in more fighters to try to “ambush” and kill the opposition, but they both did it so it’s a cluster cluck. But I also think Villy probably blessed the snake and gave him a quest to protect Jake: “I’ll give you a lesser blessing for now. Keep my Chosen alive and I’ll upgrade the blessing” Or something similar.

Oblivion

Are our frog friends joining PoL after leaving the minor world? They don’t strike me as churchy

Jaroslav Zapadlo

Yeah, it's funny because Zorg is 100% killing the whole planet off. Betcha! This arc ends with planetary catastrophy. And that's fine

Justin

So I guess the implication is at least one side will think it benefits them to annihilate the other including Jake to prevent anyone but themselves and their faction the ability to exit. Jake being naive doesn’t realize this and Villy is as everyone has said giving out blessing to tilt the scales in his chosen favor preventing his doom with some backup.

brjenness

spoiler alert!!!! entire population weaker than jake received title. a grades agreed to truce as they formed invasion armies to grab territory. Bigsnek (TM jake thane 2026) showed up with his snake, hippo, goat, and Llama allies to stop the invasion.

Josie

There's a really important typo and hasn't been brought up: "Vilas had still decided to put his finger on the scale" No no. Boss snake put tail on scale Thank you for your attention to this matter lol 🐍

Josie

and Villy saying "tis but a small touch" doesn't translate to small for me when the Viper used Touch to kill a godking in his own realm lol

Zurrin

Thanks for the chapter! Always love little segments that show Villy’s perspective on Jake and his actions or antics. It is also nice to see him act protective of his friend. Like real friends, they bicker and mock each other, but I always love to see a reinforcement or showcase that Villy does care about Jake more than just for the benefit of records. If something ever happened to Jake, I have a feeling that the rest of the Primordials would immediately gather to try and “calm” or at least limit the extent of Villy’s rage.

zran

sadly he does not see him entirelly as his friend seeing how there is a line in there saying "Vilas had no intention of losing his Chosen this early on." the main focus on the word chosen, it reveals to the reader what he sees him as his chosen regardless of jake relation with the slithery god with this said i am not claiming his friendship with jake is fake, but rather what he cares more about what gains he obtains from his chosen actions(after all their relationship in part is transactional)

Rodney

I was thinking Willie might have found a loophole and a way to send an a grade of his own into the minor world to back Jake up and show the power of the outside world while protecting Jake in a similar fashion since you know really likes to play with the loopholes and can get away with a lot when it comes to the system

tigerfishie

I’m imagining there’s an S grade or something there now because of Villy blessing someone or something lol, TYFTC!

Rahsheem Reid

Villy probably blessed the big snake.

Corvid

Villy: "Okay, I'm going to give you this blessing little knockoff version of me, but you need to do two things for me. First is to go make sure my little buddy doesn't get tossed in a box like a tollbooth at the border. Second, and this is way more important, go find as many blue mushrooms as possible and give them to Jake as a tribute fit for my mortal avatar. He absolutely loves the things."

StrangeBee

I hate the weekend

ZanSanCho

Tftc Zog!

brjenness

It's elementary my dear watson. The frogs do not have long distance hive mind communication. The spiders double crossed the frogs and the frogs were merely prepared to defend themselves. But brsherlock, the frogs could have cast a tracking spell of some sort and the spiders just reacted. Ahhhh, yes Watson. I see what you are saying. In fact, there might not have been any double crossing at all. Perhaps the others are correct and another group arrived which means it has to be the poison hippo tribe. Watson shakes his head but remains silent because he knows there are several possibilities involving a double crossing and several that do not involve skullduggery. There could be a third group riding to the rescue or a third group coming to steal ol wooden face. In fact, villy might have had a talk with bigsnek and scared him shutless because villy knew exactly what bigsnek would do if left without "guidance".

brjenness

Anybody know a hacker capable of hacking into an authors home network and setting the time on all his devices forward 40 hours? Asking for a friend.

Lemonsqueezy

PoL isn't really churchy, that is more the M.O. of the Holy Church. As of now we really do not know who these factions will align with. Most of us are just basing it off the affinity they are aligned to. The frogs are life affinity focused so that naturally points them to PoL. Arachnecs are death affinity focused so they would go with the Risen. The snakes are well snakes so the Order is the best fit for them. However, the Order really accepts anyone regardless of their affinity. So all three factions could go to the Order especially monsters (which all three factions on the minor world technically are).

itsdlow

Zogarth, you nerd! TFTC

Michael

I used to enjoy the weekends..

Michael

Might not be enough! Snakes are not a peak faction there as I understand.

ABTelford

lol! I know what you mean! The wait this weekend is extra hard for some reason. 😫

Matthew Monroe

@zogarth will there be a side story in which we find out Tom is the MySpace friend Tom, and that he was an 👽 wanting to befriend humans hahaha and Sandy picking him up randomly

Josie

This is very late of me, but I just realized Villy is no longer written as Vilastromoz. That's how he was referred to throughout his Nevermore POVs, for example. He really did sacrifice his dragon self in the Yip fight and is now Vilas

Finley

Surley that's more just a writers choice than him sacrificing anything, that thing that yip killed was a molt, as in how snakes she'd their skin I beleive

Joshua Little

Thanks for the chapter.

Chloe

Time for some blessings. Tyftc