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116 (Patreon)

Published:
2020-08-16 05:00:02
Edited:
2020-08-16 18:34:15
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2020-09

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*sound of maniacal laughter*

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The Human

The highlight of the week. Thanks!

Jeff

“Hey you, you’re finally awake,” she said. “You were trying to cross the border, right?” .... how dare you

Pagemaster

I just had a thought. Creatures gain a buff to memory with Rain's aura. How much is freaking Dozer gaining from Rain? Dozer has a freaking direct bond to his soul along with the aura. Dozer is going to be a freaking beast one day. Lol.

Anonymous

this is torture, i can admit i've become addicted and now i have to wait another week! ...can't wait though

The 49th Khan

Well, I do like pie...

Anonymous

I can't tell what would would be worse, losing the accolade to the snow or someone stealing it... Well detection can solve the first one, but I don't think it can find an accolade that's been absorbed

Garrett
>>42274099

You're assuming Rain wasn't the one to absorb it. That was the whole point of his meditation after all, and he was too out of it and distracted to check at the end there.

Anonymous

Oh man, this story is getting back to that really good rhythm from the beginning. I'm at the edge of my seat waiting for more! Thanks for the chapter.

Garrett
>>42273926

... he's a slime though. He literally has no brain. Maybe he'll be hyper intelligent in a few hundred years, but I wouldn't expect anything impressive in the near future

Andrew

Thank you!

Anonymous

Im so glad you didnt drag out the traveling by focusing on all the small details. The Fel Sadanis arc was way too long, and i dont think i would have survived another arc that long on pure travel. Good chapter though. Glad to see the secondary PoV's are still going. They make the story more interesting for me for sure.

Chris
>>42274604

I started to panic when the story was talking about tax code.

Kiwilord

Now that we've paid the tax, give rain the blue!

Guilty343

The Skyrim reference was on point

Anonymous

They see a lair....all I see is a Awakener-making machine!!!!!

Adrian Gorgey

Hmm... probably he absorbed the accolade? And wow, a lair. That's great. I hope there's a blue, it'd be fun for Rain to start leveling again.

Anonymous

So... He turned the accolade back into a lair? That explains how the guy missed the Lair on the surface.

Chopper

That horse was a boss, I hope he's doin alright!

Anonymous

i realized after i read it again that ameliah said "how the hells" at the end. i thought they were always saying "what the abyss" and such. is Rain a bad influence or was it an accident of normal typing. or is it just THAT bad she felt the need to call upon hell instead of the abyss. Are they separate places? maybe im reading too much into it.

apathy

Wait if Rain absorbed the accolade to make the dungeon and they complete the dungeon to turn unawakened into awakened then couldn’t they just turn everyone into awaken?

Thransk

Wow we got a lot of progress this chapter. Mana manipulation maxed out, new skills, and a lot of hype for the next few chapters!

Bloodorange17

So either he absorbed the accolade, or it became a lair. I'm betting the first. Either way I'm hoping there's a level 27+ blue

Anonymous

A lair! Finally some action :-) Fingers crossed Kettel and Val get beat up and maybe learn something...

Khress
>>42279710

i hope not. i hope the first people of Asencion will awaken here1

Ziggy

Ethereal Aura would help his problems right now, but by the time he can afford it at level 27 minimum, he's going to have auras like Discombobulate and Shroud to where the environmental effects won't be a problem anymore. Discombobulate is OP, should be his go-to aura unless the target has high mental resistance, and it doesn't seem to effect the environment at all. I'm not saying the skill doesn't have its advantages. But not in the "I won't destroy the environment" way. That'll be almost inconsequential at that point. But resistance to environmental occlusion and absorption? Waayy better. It means his auras will be less hampered by the environment in general at minimum. It might also mean metal will have trouble absorbing his mana? Not sure. But it means he might even penetrate magical occlusion/absorption methods after a certain point with his auras. Let alone mundane.

Gio

Neat, a lair! What will they do? Lair was not reported by the scouts, possible eplanations: 1: Lair was recently created 2: Lair was not reported intentionally If the lair is still unnamed, 1 is more likely, but does not exclude 2. If 2 is the case, it might cause trouble in the future, especially if they destroy the lair core. If Rain somehow created the lair, I don't know what to think :p Who should they send into the lair? Depending on the level of the lair, at least 2 awakened with the remaining slots filled with unawakened. They also can't just send their strongest people in the lair, the caravan also needs to be defended. Who should they awaken? I think they should prioritize awakening workers so that non-workers can spend their tel and workers can train worker related skills. Rain is maybe able to get some info from Tallheart how to get rare worker classes. If they're lucky, and the lair has a blue monster, they'll be able to do 2 awakening runs. One for the blue monster and one for the core.

Toknightly

Hopefully this lair means rain can finally level up again! Level 28 blue fingers crossed

Ziggy
>>42282442

Good point for the core. Honestly didn't even think of it that way. It depends on how long they want to farm it? They do seem in a rush. I doubt they have any way to "claim" it or any ability to stake it out as their own for a prolonged period of time. Your method of 1 group awakened from blue and 1 from core breaking seems best. Though depending on if the core breaking gives you the same level as the core or just default of level 5, and the level of the blue, those accolades would be wayyyy more valuable than the blue kill. And who says there aren't already some unawakened or weak chumps already inside trying their luck? They're going in regardless, but it might be a rescue.

And Then There Was None
>>42280252

Every offensive aura we know about up until Discombobulate has an environmental effect, and discombobulate requires 50 ranks in offensive auras, so rain won't be getting it before level 25 minimum. However Radiance and Darkness don't damage the environment, they merely brighten or darken it. That makes them perfect short term solutions to mage burn. Rain might end up blinding his team, but if he just needs to clear out a group, like in the last lair, it's perfect. I always wondered why rain picked two tier 0 attacks, rather than darkness.

Anonymous

So I downvoted this for the skyrim meme.

Anonymous
>>42282776

The big issue with a level 28 blue is that they most likely cannot kill it. Blues over level 25 needs a full party of silver plates according to conventional wisdom, and they don’t have anything (yet) that lets them get around it. Ameliah and Tallheart will probably face dangerous fights from around level 20 monsters, if they’re fighting solo.

Anonymous

Wew lads...that Etherial aura tho. That is EXACTLY what we needed to mass produce awakened! I'm not talking about the 'Rain can activate auras without killing himself like a buffoon' thing either, though that is a plus. No no, that's the tiny peanut brain application for Etherial Aura. The REAL galaxy brain application is, with environmental exclusion set to 100%, Rain would essentually just be releasing concentrated elemental mana, allowing him to recharge dungeon cores WITHOUT dealing damage to them! This also follows with the hoarfrost labyrinth being reformed. By connecting to the accolade without absorbing it, Rain allowed a direct path from the Soulspace where accolades reside to the ambient cold element mana saturating the area, allowing the core to absorb it and re-dungeon itself. Absolutly amazing chapter. 10/10 stars.

Anonymous

Todd Howard you son of a bitch you did it again

Monadologist

Did he just consume an award plaque to manifest a dungeon ?

Thransk
>>42279342

As a follow up,I hope he chooses Shear, Radiance, and Fulminate for his offensive auras and Chemical Ward, Mental Ward, Dark Ward, and Suppression for his skills before 25. Shear is really good because of the not occluded by mundane materials. Radiance leads to Fulminate, which would allow him to paralyze enemies for nonawakened. Chemical, Mental, and Dark Ward cover the final requirements for Suppression. It's probably the most useful aura in that tree.

Pyrefiend

A lot happened this chapter, with a lot more coming. I like it, good job.

Anonymous

...but I like kale! :( sniff (start with the curly kind, wash well, separate the stems, lightly massage the leaves w/ oil, salt, pepper, lay out on parchment, and bake till they are crispy but not blackened; very yummy and easy! add some hot pepper flakes if you like pain, ofc)

Tohron

Wonder if that was an accolade to create a lair and Rain inadvertently activated it?

Tycho Green
>>42290964

Didn’t you read any comments or did you read the comments and decided to comment the same thing some more?

Kyle
>>42277982

Yes - it's a clearly impossibly broken idea and even more than the points ziggy made above about why it doesn't make sense for that to be what happened, if it was possible to do that then someone would know by now, and also it's obviously ridiculously broken and narratively oversimplifying to allow that to work

Anonymous

This was a great chapter, lots of stuff happened. If Rain's aura is boosting the entire company, effecting people and animals to have a better memory and more intelligence, I wonder if his temperament to not be an asshole could be bleeding through also. Subtle mind influence ftw

Anonymous

I find the competition for kills to be really strange... it encourages all the issues from the guild. Damage focus, competition instead of teamwork etc. Something simple like a base pay increase with an additional share every x levels would probably work much better. It also allows for easy penalties for bad behavior, simply dock shares. Additional shares could be used as reward for excellence.

Anonymous

I’m using the phone app and the pdf files on this post are for chapter 115.

Yeno Memevig

Maybe the empire went this way and was disrupting divination

Anonymous

I am also only seeing 115.

Anonymous

Both the epub and the PDF are chapter 115 for me.

Thenais

FEELS like Rain will enter the lair as an admin after creating it. I wonder what cheats he will get.

Anonymous

Last couple chapters have been really nice =)

Anonymous

Thanks!

Minitiative

Well, they found a lair a lot faster than I expected, which is a pleasant surprise. Now how exploitable is it...

Newguy Roy
>>42295176

Iirc, contribution on the surface is different. Supporting roles actually get credited for supporting

Andrew

I am hoping for a level 23-24 blue. Give Rain some new skills without pushing him into Silver rank. I don’t want Rain to get too strong too fast, but at the same time his near stagnation has been frustrating. If he gets to level 23 he will be strong enough to contribute against a wall breaking blue and it won’t feel like his friends are power-leveling him.

Rebecca

I KNEW dust was affected! I hope he didn’t lose that accolade

Anonymous

i was hoping he'd get the accolade and get a skill point from it, you guys really think he made a lair? I kinda wish senescentSoul release blocks of chapters like alexanderwales. you know so we didnt leave off on cliff hangers each time. ah well. back to pacing until the next chapter launches

Andrei

Finally! Hoping for a high enough level blue for many many weeks of levelling and skills testing!

Ziggy
>>42313949

Definitely not. Besides it not making much sense, it would provide Rain with infinite lairs which is too OP and not the kind of story this is.

Ziggy
>>42306185

I'm a thirsty bitch. I'd be happy with even one new level lol. But even without that I'm looking forward to what happens next with this situation.

Ziggy
>>42286340

...Isn't this just the "elemental refinement" skill also revealed in this chapter, except with extra steps and assumptions lol

Anonymous

Y'all need to chill, there's no way there's a dungeon dropping over 13 in the ranked zone he's currently in. We're gonna get some sweet build porn and then at best the next dungeon we'll get that cap increase.

Ziggy
>>42317601

A lair is a higher rank than the area it's in. The two lairs Rain has personally been into were in unranked or just about areas. They had monsters up to level 15-20, and blues level 5-8. With the area being rank 11ish (was in Fel Sedanis, might fluctuate with travel), there could easily be a level 20 blue in there. ...Or no blues at all! Lairs are random as hell. Supposedly. We'll see what this one's like.

Tohron

Just did a bunch of math, and concluded that Empire of Will should be a serious contender for Rain to take before level 30. In a theoretical situation where Rain picked it as his level 27 skill after Prismatic Intent, and had all skills maxed (at 10 for magical utility, 15 for everything else due to aura specialization), the extra mana regen provided from the Focus via Magical Synergy would be almost 150% higher than the aura cost when running Winter in full Aura Focus mode, with both Winter and Empire of Will compressed to personal range. (This is assuming that the regen bonus from Intrisic Clarity would apply to the regen from Magical Synergy, which appears to be the case since Rain's displayed mana capacity appears to benefit from Intrisic Focus applying to the capacity he gets from Magical Synergy) The enormous mana capacity he would get from that would allow him long intervals between recharges, and the damage boost to his offensive auras would be a nice addition as well.

Ziggy
>>42322917

Even his magical utility tree will be specialized and have all the skills at level 15 post level 25. He'll get 5 specializations as a legendary, magical utility is one of his 5 trees. It seems like a powerful skill. But we don't know if it counts against stat ring soulstrain or not. If it's the same soulstrain, he already has his ring he can't even max out. And if it's not the same soulstrain, we don't know how much can be tolerated before soulstrain kicks in. Same as stat rings? Less? Who knows. It'll be a while before we get answers and a lot of skills to get before then. But I kinda want him to take it just to find out lol.

A⊄Pow(A)
>>42279714

Val's memory capacity is too small to learn anything meaningful.

Anonymous

I don't think you have to look further then Brightside (Ch 35) for most of this to fall apart. (outpost at the bottom of a cavern filled with poison) Purify is an insane way to make money, you run out of mana, pump it all into mana regen. Monoliths aren't hard, pump all one stat to Level 5. Adventurers and Nobles take their children and somewhere there must have been a merchant who realized they could charge endless items too. (like Lavarro) Or the Empire must have had escaped or honorable slaves who were able to cross the wall and find out how powerful it can get. The Watch records hidden classes and would know and would use them for their major cities too. It's not too dangerously powerful but insanely useful. Anyone can stumble and do this, only Rain's math skills let him be more efficient choosing/using skills. I can see Adventurers up to a point forgoing this, but not institutions or people trying to make money. (even if there is a better way, someone had to "mistake" their way into this and seen its value over time) I don't think this "I'm so smart and no one figured out this hidden class/skill" works in litrpgs unless the world is new or there is a common misconception. Seeing how the world is hundreds of years old (or thousands) and they have entire volumes of tax law for their empires, I find it hard to believe in recorded history no one has recorded or figured out what the Aura trees or Dynamo does. I think it's a flaw not adequately explained here. I think you could suspend belief if it was like Val's (6 random light skills and solo a blue) but not put all stats in one category by Level 5 and unlock a rare class.

Ziggy
>>42660842

No one thinks that the populace doesn't know about monoliths. Pretty much everyone does. This doesn't negate the aforementioned reasonable stigmas and problems inherent with each one. Most of the monoliths tear themselves apart or are generally shitty. But you'll still see some people try Animus at times more than most of the other monoliths, because it's powerful (Staavo conversation). That pure power output is appealing as it means you can keep breaking your cap in spite of the ever increasing monster growth, and you can't be made into a captive or slave easily. Or for any reason. Not like those in power need an Animus on a leash. Now being a dynamo? Very weak in comparison. Almost all spells run off Focus multipliers, so you're completely neglecting your power in return for lots of mana regen. Which means you can't keep killing blues on your own, and you're most likely some kind of support. And if you're support, you're in danger of being made a slave or captive to those in power. Huge social stigmas involved and just plain crippling yourself in a lot of ways. Like look at Rain's power output currently against someone like Jamus. Jamus is 6 levels lower but can kill stronger monsters much more easily than Rain. Rain will get his mana back much faster, but Jamus will put out more damage, faster, and Rain has 50% more levels than him. Even if someone is willing to go against all the social stigmas and aforementioned dangers of being so weak in comparison, they'd have a much harder time of it. So, so far, they'd need to voluntarily go against social stigma, be smart enough to see the advantage of something overlooked and Rain's specific combo, survive in spite of the danger, not be made a slave on their way to power, not only see the advantage but have an inherent desire to be a support mage, have a bunch of others help them level, etc. It's not like the nobles would do it. They "pass down" builds for their kids to use. They're not going to gamble their lives with a build like that. And of all the Watch members we've seen, how many chose a support role? One. And it was a hybrid support, not even pure support. So we haven't even seen a Watch member that's a healer, let alone something niche like a dynamo or aura mage. I'm sure we'd see a pure healer Watch member way before an aura mage. If this sample size is indicative of the trend, plus the stigmas and inherent problems given? Yeah it totally makes sense. I would be scared to pick a support build in their world, too. "So.. I'm gonna have a harder time leveling, defending myself, overall be weaker, people are gonna want to enslave me for their own benefit, there are no takebacks so I'm stuck with it for life, it requires I completely ignore the other stats so I'll never be smarter/stronger or anything really than a baseline dull, I have to worry about others and not just myself, all in exchange for... having lots of mana? You're not making this sound appealing. Super strength or fireballs sound way better." It's not a game they can close out of, the stats they invest in highly effect their quality of life. That's why being a Vivificant sounds awesome on paper but would be REALLY hard to actually do. Well, I think it sounds awesome. But I also think high recovery slows down aging. Keep in mind even crafting classes are a scarcity to where they're worried about word about Talheart spreading. So not like people can generally afford great equipment or stat rings to compensate for having shit stats. In choosing to be a dynamo, you're choosing to be able to be easily killed by both monsters and awakened with base physical stats. Glass cannon except you're the opposite of a cannon. You're weaker than everyone else. Which is why Staavo himself said that other "idiots" try the class like Rain, they just never level up very high. Or survive. And I'm totally sure we'll come across a random merchant or whomever that chose to be happy being stuck as a weak dynamo that pumps out mana for tel. That doesn't negate any of the points, though. Just because someone chose that, doesn't mean the specific path Rain has chosen is likely or easy. Ameliah isn't a monolith and she managed to make plenty of money from using purify so not like you'd need to be a dynamo to do that kind of thing.

Anonymous

First we're talking about pure chance here. Tens of thousands of people over hundreds of years. Yes Kurt ended up with poor choices, others end up with good choices. Some are smart enough to combine it with auras, others aren't. You don't need offensive auras to decide to be a walking mana battery. That alone would generate massive interest in the class. We're talking only putting skill points in one category till Level 5, no other requirements (LOW BARRIER TO ENTRY) The concept of discovering electricity is far different then putting 6 upgrades in a single category. Even if there is a stigma, the Watch is still a military styled organization. They still award blues and classes on skill, merit, AND NEED. There are always going to be people who prefer to support and avoid direct conflict. Even if they have to work harder to find that people, the watch wouldn't forgo healers because of a "stigma". They award based on compatibility, need and desires (chapter 108) And a build without offensive auras wouldn't be too "dangerous" to keep a secret which is one fear with some class builds they restrict. Endless is one example given but there shouldn't really be just one example. It's a flaw because of how easy the class unlocks. Nobles have many children, nobles have different amounts of wealth, not all need combat. Even if a world ending event happened, we're talkinga bout civilization to rediscover writing ,complex tax laws, and large public volumes of tax law being disseminated. Again, hundreds of years, tens of thousands of people, and no one discovered how to abuse the mana or XP of the class? We're not even into how broken the class is yet. Some of the info on the information lost on souls and how to exploit the XP. There are weaknesses to the class that Rain has almost all but shored up at this point with the armor, ring, and in the future the ethereal aura.

Anonymous

The xp is not meaningful. It lets Rain unlock a lot of things, and read their descriptions, but he cant test those things, and the raw descriptors the watch certainly has a library off. But all classes not capped level very quickly.

Anonymous
>>42709936

The XP is likely meaningful to the DKE and the few nobles who know about the soul and Majistreel artifacts. Why waste a lifetime generating XP to boost your soul when you can do so in years. Unlocking 144 Tier 4's or Tier 5's would be brutal. Not to mention the corresponding skills take far more XP. But I can see this information being hard to find, or kept hidden for a reason. The sheer value of mana in the world though.....there has to be some merchant or noble who discovered the value (and incidentally how fast they level up) They'd have to buy their way to armor and blues, but it's perfectly feasible to happen and they wouldn't be a useless link on an expedition team "beyond the wall". Especially not in a major city. Unless the world or system/game was brand new, I find it hard to believe people could look past this class from a purely monetary point of view. (not to mention military) Yes, it's HARDER to find someone who wants to play a support, but a far cry from impossible. As an afterthought, if you were a pure Jack (like Ameliah) it would be *very valuable* for you to efficiently gain XP and unlock as many skill trees as possible. Having skill trees unlocked is important so you can create more builds and variations too. You may not be getting the class bonuses, but the XP should be faster then near anything else they could be doing.

Anonymous

What a find. And what was that Skyrim meme you pulled near the end? Just a dream?