Jake knew the question of how long he had been in time dilation was just a stupid joke, but he still thought about it seriously. The last time he had spent fourteen years or something in time dilation, and that had translated to a few months. Would it be more? Jake considered and concluded It couldn’t be more than half a year, even if that would be a while.
However, he did notice one thing. His token had no new messages left behind on it. The last time he was in the time chamber, he had gotten some messages in the meantime, with the messages appearing whenever he exited. This time he hadn’t gotten any. So, maybe less than three months? Forty years resulting in three months passing would be a 1-160 dilation, which seems like… a lot? Was it a lot?
Needless to say, Jake had no way to math it out. But he did have one way to find out quickly without having Villy tell him.
”How about we make a bet on if I can guess the time? Down to the hour.” Jake proposed to tease the snake god in turn.
”Oh, interesting? What are we betting?” Villy answered with genuine curiosity. ”Wait, I know! The loser has to wear an outfit decided by the other.”
Jake seemed to consider it seriously for a few moments. ”Pictures allowed?”
”Obviously.”
”Hm… fine,” Jake accepted.
”I am already assuming I lost, so how does my Chosen have a way to accurately determine Realtime? It tends to be annoying unless you have system timers, and I don’t think you have any of those, and I already scanned the mansion for any kind of timing features on the ritual circle,” the Viper asked curiously. ”Then again, maybe you were bluffing.”
Jake smiled as he spoke up.
”Hey, Duskleaf, how long was I in there?”
The sprout-clone of the alchemist god had been in another room, and Jake spoke loud enough for him to hear. Not that Jake doubted he would pick up what Jake said no matter how loud he spoke. As expected, the alchemy god peeked his head in.
”It was-”
”My dear disciple. Do not answer that.”
Duskleaf looked confused a bit as Jake countered.
”If you tell me, you will get a picture of Villy in an outfit of your own choosing,” Jake smirked, offering up the opportunity for him to decide.
”If you tell him, I will-”
”Fifty-five days, eleven hours, sixteen minutes, and… seventeen minutes now,” Duskleaf cut Villy off.
Jake looked at Villy. ”Fifty-five days, eleven hours, and seventeen minutes. Give or take.”
”This is clearly collusion,” he answered defiantly.
couldn’t ask anyone,” Jake
own disciple to so thoughtlessly betray me like that. My
others I had no interest in, made me take up the position as Leader in the Academy, is pressuring me to give lessons at the Academy, stole a lot of the ingredients I had gathered while you were gone, proceeded to use those materials for your own goals without even asking, then tried to convince me that I had just misplaced
on defense. ”And, to counter, I
Duskleaf raised an eyebrow.
good point. I wouldn’t,” the snake god shrugged. ”Anyway, why the hell did I even agree to this? And shouldn’t you
with a deadpan expression. ”I would have probably already been on my way back if you had
able to endure a time dilation around 1-265 despite still being in D-grade,” Villy said
dilation was often only used for specific things like this or avoided entirely, it wasn’t something he often heard people talk about. But it sounded like it was above standard,
considered really damn good. Anything above that is for chronomancers who are specialized in time magic and have an
it. Maybe it was a bit like adapting to pressure in deep water? He did have Moment and Steady Focus, though he was not sure if Steady Focus even counted as
pick out an outfit and send it… I want a
a heretic, Jake. You care more about some silly bet than the praise of your Patron. This is downright blasphemous, I tell you!” Villy said with
accept such a label with honor,” Jake bowed, also getting a nod of confirmation from Duskleaf. He did not know what the old alchemist was planning, but he was looking forward
Jake. ”Schematics for the new ritual circle to teleport back here while piggybacking off the main formation the snake
had totally forgotten about that. Thanks!” Jake said, saying his
He considered contacting Irin to ask about her but decided not to. Maybe being apart from Jake for a bit was a good thing? It had only been a few months anyway, and if something bad had happened, he was sure
after getting there. Well, in actuality, he had been there for over
mostly
Actually evolve to C-grade.
if it was okay for her to join. She didn’t know anything about the Order, and she wasn’t even that strong yet, plus she didn’t know how to do any alchemy and, in all honesty, had no interest in the subject. She honed her own personal venom through the consumption of certain natural treasures and practice, and
and hadn’t liked her at all from the very moment she saw her. She was weak, even for a C-grade, and it was clear she wasn’t a fighter at all. Yet she dared act towards the Chosen like that… Scarlett didn’t like it. At least she still didn’t go too far, and after spending some time with
to a new area through many of the teleportation gates spread around until they reached a dungeon entrance with many other
the Academy, there is not really an assessment per-se, more just a dungeon that has to be passed. Do note that this particular C-grade dungeon is capable of handling both groups or individuals, and you
want to
allow her insight into the general
with rather diluted blood who were already a group before this. The last member was individual who had come alone. Scarlett and the other individual were the only beasts, the other one some kind of mammal-like beast who had taken a very hairy
join, but as they left, Irin had
I am not getting good
to heart, though she was not overly worried. Their levels were all rather high, though, all firmly
[Dragonkin – lvl 274]
[Dragonkin – lvl 277]
[Dragonkin – lvl 275]
Alpha – lvl
there was
Snake – lvl
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