Complicated.That was the word Vilastromoz would use to describe the situation.He had an odd relationship with the unknown. On the one hand, the unknown was a nuisance. It represented an obstacle one potentially had to understand to continue moving forward. Yet, on the other hand, it represented a chance to learn something new. Something truly new.After ninety-two full eras, there wasn’t much new to learn about the system besides whatever new things it decided to introduce at every initiation. However, the core mechanics never changed. The rules of skill rarities, the level at which you evolved, the races and the stats they gave, the stat limits… All of these things were set. Unchangeable. Not even Transcendents or Bloodlines could touch these.While it was never quite on the same level, the rules of evolution for the popular enlightened races were also set in stone. Not because some inherent concept meant these were theoretically unchangeable, but because they simply hadn’t ever ch

*’DING!’ Race: [Human (C)] has reached level 200 - Stat points allocated, +45 Free Points*The level was gained, and he returned to the real world.Jake had been prepared this time around. He had steeled himself and done all he could to limit his senses to not experience sensory overload. His control since he became D-grade had increased significantly, and Jake had far more confidence this time around when he was teleported back to the bed in his lodge.The moment he appeared, he was still hit hard. Thousands of smells, extremely loud sounds and so much information from his sphere got fed straight into his brain. He imagined colors he didn’t even know existed, heard impossible sounds, and experienced the mana in the air as suffocating.Gritting his teeth, the cracking sound from some of them breaking was deafening, but it allowed him to focus on that one sound. He kept grinding his teeth, the sound echoing within his head like he was living inside a drum set, and focused solely on thi

Jake smiled as the Viper probed him. He felt the Blessing strengthen and knew he had just entrenched himself even further with the Viper—and clearly, so did the snake god."Just upgraded my profession,” Jake answered his divine buddy. “A straight upgrade, and the same name, too, meaning I am still a Heretic-Chosen Alchemist. So nothing overly exciting.”"A straight upgrade that dragged even more out of me," the Viper said, “to a level where it is beginning to limit the maximum number of other Blessings I can give out.""Is that bad?" Jake asked with a bit of worry."No, I am not even close to reaching that maximum, and probably won’t unless I one day wake up and decide to give high-level Blessings to an entire planet. What actually happened isn’t the problem; it is the principle of the thing.” There clearly wasn’t a trace of actual worry in his voice."My apologies, then," Jake said with a grin."Did you at least get something out of it?""Let me check," Jake said, already knowing the

Jake felt the influx of knowledge as his class evolved. For a moment, he felt as if he were sitting within an endless void with only darkness all around him, except for a single horizontal line of light impossibly far away. He blinked, and it was gone, making Jake certain he had not actually been transported anywhere… It was just a vision.It lingered for a while before Jake shook it off and returned his attention to what the evolution had brought with it.Checking it out, he saw that he’d gotten one skill upgraded and another new skill, mirroring what had happened in D-grade. The skill that had upgraded was once more Big Game Hunter, with a name that was now just getting silly with how long it was.[Big Game Arcane Hunter (Epic)] – A true hunter seeks not the easy prey but a true challenge. Your hunt has taken you further than ever before as your methods improve, and you have embraced the arcane. The Avaricious Arcane Hunter has, through his many hunts, become more accustomed to faci

In the sky, there had once been a cloud island. It had been quite large, too, with a few elementals spawning here and there. Using past tense was very important in this case, as there was no longer an island to be seen anywhere. It turned out that clouds and giant tornadoes did not mix well. Or, well, it could be said they mixed really well, considering how the entire cloud island had been swept up, and Sylphie had tried to use all the cloud mana to amplify her own attack.It hadn’t worked, but it was a nice attempt. In fact, their fight was constantly marred by the same thing: not much working for either side. Jake could not deal any significant damage to Sylphie due to her newfound ability to be half-ethereal and turn into wind at will, and while Sylphie did have attacks more than capable of dealing severe damage to Jake, actually hitting him was another story. What few chances she did get, she ended up abandoning or dodging as Jake happily countered. After the first use of Eternal