Jake floated silently in the air as the aura of Temlat slowly faded away. With his death, the curse and plague both disappeared, curing all those who had been infected nearly instantly. Looking down at Eternal Hunger, he wondered if anything had changed but found no obvious changes to the weapon, apart from its clear satisfaction with having consumed another Sin Curse to fuel itself. He did feel that the Records of another Sin Curse had slightly affected it, but… Temlat had simply been far too weak to truly affect the mythical weapon in a major way.Sighing yet again, Jake headed toward one of the portals leading back to the House of the Architect. He had no reason to stay on the ruined planet and would leave while only offering it a few more thoughts. As Temlat had said, chances were the survivors would eventually rise again. While ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the population had died, hundreds of thousands, if not a few million, had survived. With no wild beasts on the planet, t

"So, how exactly does this evaluation work?” Jake asked. “I would assume all of the submissions were already evaluated upon submission. And even if they weren’t, I doubt doing so would take you much time.”“Indeed, each evaluation has already been completed. However, this final part is a bit different. This evaluation is not for anyone’s benefit, but your own. Part of the purpose of this Challenge Dungeon is to benefit you, after all. Tell me, have you noticed something different about this House of the Architect compared to where you usually work?”“A lot of things, considering it’s a Challenge Dungeon inside a World Wonder,” Jake responded in a rather deadpan tone. “Unless you expected me to notice something specific?”The Architect sighed. “The environment. With your senses, you should have noticed a slight difference. Tell me, how would you evaluate your gains during your time spent here?”“I felt like I made a lot of progress?” Jake semi-asked. “More than usual, but there can be

Nevermore shook her head after she threw the young human out of the Challenge Dungeon. The instance of the dungeon he had been occupying was already dematerializing and getting recycled, with the ten Creations he had submitted and his new personal domain all that remained.Of the Creations, the arcane marble was by far the most interesting and would be a great item to absorb for the World Wonder. She also had plenty of thoughts on the one who had submitted it and his… peculiar nature. Nevermore also couldn’t help but find it funny he had asked about the 25% bonus as if it was something anyone ever expected to get. Though it was hard to blame him, considering he had already obtained it two times.Perhaps if he had spent longer, he could have reached the 25% he strived for, but she doubted it. If he had wanted to reach that evaluation, he would have had to thoroughly expand the scope of what he worked with. As an alchemist, he already had many different advantages, but as odd as it soun

Delivery jobs were definitely one of the most vital functions of modern society. Before the system, who could even live without getting stuff delivered to their house within a day of ordering it online? It was truly an impossibility, and the hard-working delivery workers were the ones who made that a reality.Jake had spent a while in university working as a delivery driver to make some money… and let’s just say he hadn’t particularly enjoyed the job. True, there was something zen and relaxing about having a route and a set number of packages to deliver entirely on his own. Yet it had only been zen until the quotas became more and more unrealistic to the point where they began to interfere with Jake’s studies, making him quit.All of this is to say that Jake entered the Neverending Journey with a clear advantage over most other Nevermore Attendees, as he had experience in the field. Surely, working as a package delivery driver for less than a year over a century ago would have led to

Actual traveling.Who would have thought that a Courier job would include traveling? Sure had Jake fooled after running around the same city for several days. Sure, it hadn’t been the worst, and there’d been plenty of diversity thrown in there to make it entertaining.Nevertheless, Jake was glad that phase of the Challenge Dungeon was over as he proceeded with Courier Job 20. It wasn’t like he had to go far, but it did feel good to finally be out in the open. He had traveled around a bit in the House of the Architect’s worlds, but he hadn’t gone full speed most of the time, as he’d had to actively scout out the environment.Now, speed was the only thing that mattered. With Jake using One Step repeatedly, the city had long since turned into a blip on the horizon. Every single step cleared around a kilometer of distance, having improved quite a lot during all his time in Nevermore. He was still a ways from passing a thousand miles like the name indicated it technically could, but consid