For over three weeks, a crisis had shaken the planet. It quickly became known as the Great Famine, where all living things on Earth had suddenly felt unbearable hunger. The first few days were the worst by far, before many became more used to the feeling and found ways to cope.The predominant opinion was that it was some part of the system. A trial or a hidden event or something to test humanity. The only problem with this theory was that it had affected every living being and not just humans. When it then suddenly stopped one day, people were just left more confused.Only a select few people on the planet actually knew what had happened. Casper knew but didn’t share with anyone, and Miranda had an inkling, as Jake had informed her of his plans before leaving. As for everyone else? Well, it was difficult to figure it out. All kinds of divination into the issue were met with a wall, and no gods gave any information to their believers, only strengthening the belief it was system-impose

Jake shifted the form of Eternal Hunger a few times, from a dagger to a sword to a two-handed blade, and even into a spear and an exact replica of the old Scimitar of Eternal Hunger. He had also transformed it into a bow—or, at least, into the body of one—which was effectively just a curved stick.The problem was that the metal had low flexibility, and while Jake could make some changes to the form to make it better, he couldn’t make a string. He also couldn’t really see it being useful, as all of its power was in hitting things with it.In the end, he settled on a shape similar to the Nanoblade, much like the one he had used these last few days. In the other hand, he wielded the Bloodfeast Dagger from the Auction, getting a good feel for both of the weapons."Yeah, this is good," Jake muttered to himself as he made them both disappear to take out his bow.Jake had no intentions of taking the following hunt too lightly. The last two Queen’s Guards had shown these termites were not to

The gap between grades only grew larger and more challenging to overcome the higher one went. For a decently talented E-grade to beat a weak, low-tier D-grade was only to be expected, while the same could not be said for a D-grade killing a C-grade.This did not mean it wasn’t possible or even considered relatively uncommon among those classified as geniuses. In fact, Jake had a high level of confidence he would be able to kill plenty of C-grade before he eventually reached the tier himself. But even with this confidence, he was still not sure if being level 150—only halfway to C-grade—was quite good enough.However, some things did give him a chance. What Jake was walking into was the area of a C-grade Isoptera Queen variant, based on his own estimates. He did not hold doubt in his mind it would be significantly stronger than the late D-grades before, but that honestly mattered less than it should.If the C-grade Queen acted in the same vein as the D-grades, there were many things to

Honestly, if there was one convenience the system had brought that Jake could not see ever living without again, it was the Self-Repair enchantment. That, and other enchantments allowing armor to repair itself—like the Shadow Mend on his chest armor—just made life so much easier when you were someone like Jake, who was prone to having whatever he was wearing destroyed.Still hidden deep underground and surrounded by not-so-friendly termites, Jake took nearly two full days to get back in his best condition again. It was a lot longer than expected, considering his potion usage, proving that he had truly taken a lot of damage. What’s more was how hard the wounds were to heal… almost as though the Hive King had infused some energy into every attack to make it harder.The problem was that he felt no such energy; he just knew that healing was more problematic. That was, until Jake really looked and found what he at first had thought were just small pieces of stone or dust mixed into the wou

Jake looked on as the scientist worked.Arnold kept looking at the necklace, bringing out some measurement tools again to try and take a few more looks. He frowned as he did so and just shook his head again. "I can determine this is also a case of an item purposefully downgraded by design to allow it to be used at a lower level. Sealed-off effects and features exist within. A skilled jeweler would be required to unlock it, I assume, and you’d need catalysts and items to facilitate an upgrade. I theorize someone familiar with the crafting method would be beneficial to accomplish this, if not mandatory. I must, however, emphasize these are mere postulations."Jake nodded again. That kind of made sense. Jake had gotten it at a low level, and it would have been overpowered if it gave a shitload of Wisdom right off the bat. The spatial storage was already pretty damn great to begin with, even if he had started to run into some limitations. Limitations such as how it was unable to store liq