It’s with great sadness that I must recap this final book in the great Nevermore arc. Alas, all good things must come to an end, and at least we can all reminisce about the good old days for one last time, starting with Jake’s final Challenge Dungeon.This last Challenge Dungeon, known as the Endless Journey (or Neverending Journey as it was also called a few times where I forgot what I’d named it in the first place) allowed Jake to experience the woes and adventures of being a delivery worker—better known as a Courier within the Challenge Dungeon itself.In the beginning, Jake tackled minor, mundane tasks, and after doing a few, he unlocked his first Special Courier Job, which set him on a quest chain throughout the world within the Challenge Dungeon and forced him to get involved in—quite frankly—a stupid story filled with politics and plot twists that honestly didn’t make a lot of sense.However, this line of Special Courier Jobs also forced Jake into interacting with people he cou

Jake truthfully had never expected to encounter a B-grade on the moon. Further away from Earth around Jupiter or something? Maybe, but not so close to Earth that it was practically within striking distance. It didn’t make much sense to him how a B-grade had appeared on the moon of all places, either.He was ninety-nine-point-nine percent certain there wasn’t a single B-grade on Earth. The World Council had spent years hunting down or making contact with all sorts of beasts, and Arnold had sent drones out to scout and scan much of the underground world, with satellites covering much of what was above ground.More than that, though… Jake didn’t feel like there were any B-grades, and if he trusted one thing, it was his own intuition.By all accounts, the moon was far more barren and less energy-dense, but it did have some things going for it. Due to the thin exosphere, it got a lot of energy from space, and generally, high-level concepts tended to propagate since many of the usual ones,

It was quiet.Too quiet.No forest was meant to be like this, in Jake’s opinion. There was no wind to rustle the leaves, no movements whatsoever anywhere to cause even the slightest song. No sign of any small wildlife hiding in the bushes or on top of the trees, or the occasional sound of a bird chirping. It was just silence and stillness, as if the forest was frozen over.Jake walked through the blue forest, taking in the environment and feeling just how corrupted the mana all around him was. No D-grade would be able to exist within the forest, and even weaker C-grades would find themselves negatively affected as the energy seeped into their bodies, corrupting them. Perhaps one would even turn into some kind of Lunewood creature if one spent too long here. He would almost compare it to an area hit by nuclear fallout, and he could only begin to imagine the devastation a Wood Meteor could cause if it ever struck down on Earth and remained unattended.Then again, Jake wasn’t even sure a

Jake’s mind went blank for a moment as the realization sank in. Yet what he had expected to follow next never came. There was no anger or desire for revenge… just a belief that he had to get the fuck away from the moon as fast as humanly possible.Anything capable of killing Sandy wasn’t something Jake was confident in facing, and just feeling the aura from the thousands of vines extending up from the surface of the moon, Jake knew that this wasn’t just some weak, low-tier B-grade. It was already quite a few levels into B-grade, and a powerful variant on top of that. The mere fact it had a range extending all the way from the center of the moon to the surface was proof enough of that.Luckily, it didn’t seem to attack him as he flew away. The eye had also faded away, and all the vines began to retract back into the ground, leaving a battered Lunewood Forest behind. Many rotting spots were left where the vines had shot up from, and hundreds of Lunewood creatures had died. For some reas

Flying on the Sandy Express was definitely faster than riding the Jake Carriage, even if Sandy wasn’t in top form. After only about a day, they returned to Earth, where Sandy dropped off Jake at Skyggen before heading back to the Order. Jake did end up asking how Sandy even traveled back and forth, as he usually had to use his connection to Villy when teleporting, and the answer was as obvious as it could be. The teleportation circle made by those snakes had just been altered a bit to allow Snappy to do the same thing the Viper did.With Jake and Sandy split up once more, Jake made a quick visit to his family, who were all surprised to see him back so soon. Luckily, the moon being haunted was a universally good explanation for why he hadn’t wanted to stick around there. It did have the slight downside of Adam being very suspicious of the pretty rock Jake had brought back, and it took a lot of effort to convince him that particular rock wasn’t haunted.Jake ended up staying in Skyggen