The Prima Guardian Alliance was both a simple and complex setup by the system. The purpose of it couldn’t be any simpler: to allow different planets to team up and face Primas together. However, the way this was done had become relatively complex, especially when one considered the automatic enrollment of the planets who had already successfully dealt with their own Prima Guardian.Initially, when one joined the alliance, the World Leader would be granted a blueprint to make a special teleportation circle alongside documentation of how the circle would work. These teleportation circles were linked to every other similar circle on other planets and would allow cheap travel across the Milky Way—though there was some cost that the planet receiving people would have to bear.Partly due to this, the teleportation circles wouldn’t just automatically accept anyone who wanted to teleport to a planet. By default, someone with authority granted by the World Leader would have to approve the tele

Overconfidence was the downfall of many who thought themselves geniuses and darlings of the multiverse. Rapid progress could lead to feelings of absolute power like there was nothing in the world that could stop you. This was more often than not seen with people from worlds that had little interaction with the rest of the multiverse, and in this particular case, the main cause had been the powerup from Nevermore.Leaving for only a few years in Realtime, only to return with more than sixty levels under your belt, so easily led to this phenomenon. Especially when the planet itself didn’t progress as much during this time. The wildlife remained as strong—or weak—as before, with many of the dangerous beast lords that none had dared to engage before now viewed as nothing but easy prey.This was the folly Olliandra, the World Leader, had fallen for. Despite having entered the Prima Guardian Alliance and the fact that everyone in the final World Congress had agreed that facing the Guardian

Olliandra sat in the clock tower, contemplating the final words of the Chosen as well as the entire conversation that had preceded them. His warning at the end was also pretty clear in intent: reconsider aligning yourself with Ell’Hakan. In fact, she should reconsider if she wanted to align their planet with anyone if she could avoid it. Olliandra felt like a conflict was definitely brewing, and having seen the power of the Viper’s Chosen, she didn’t want to fight against him. On the other hand, she also didn’t dare risk making the Chosen of Yip of Yore an outright enemy. This was a conflict far beyond what she or anyone else should get involved in, and her biggest hope was that they could watch it safely from the sidelines.She also felt embarrassed she hadn’t realized he was the Chosen of the Malefic Viper when he introduced himself. In her defense, she hadn’t gone to see the Leaderboards even after finishing Nevermore. Only the space mage and a few others had decided to check it ou

Maybe Jake was a tad hypocritical for calling the Great Bright One’s believers a cult, considering he was part of a faction that worshipped a giant snake god. Then again, the Malefic Viper’s organization was called an Order. Had he had a cult in the past? Yes, but now he had an Order, so it wasn’t the same thing.As for how he would deal with them… time would tell. Jake wasn’t going to be antagonistic for no reason, though. Before he decided what he would do, he definitely needed some more information.“I must admit I’m not that knowledgeable about this Great Bright One,” Jake said, trying to be careful with his words. “But you said you expected me to know, considering I am not related to the one who calls himself the Celestial Child… What do you mean by that?”The speaker seemed to confer with the others in the room for a moment before answering. “This Ell’Hakan follows a god by the name of Yip of Yore. That in itself is no problem, but he has taken a rather fanatical approach and be

All’s well that ends well. At least, Jake thought so after he had expertly politicked his way into convincing the other World Leader to release the Prima Guardian. What’s more, it turned out the elven World Leader was way more decent than Jake had initially expected.It hadn’t taken much convincing to make the guy agree to activate the Prima Guardian—not after he’d learned Jake’s identity, anyway. In the words of the elf, if Jake couldn’t beat the Prima Guardian as the top-ranking person on the Nevermore Leaderboard, then they wouldn’t have stood a chance either way and would have faced total annihilation.There was one minor issue, though.“The Prima Vessel struck down on the other side of the planet from the capital, and while we have populated much of this world and have some forward bases, there is still a vast area of wilderness between the nearest teleportation circle and the Vessel,” the elven World Leader explained.“How long do you reckon it will take to reach it?” Jake quest