The Primal Hunter

Chapter 737

On reflection, Jake’s sense of time had truly gotten warped since after the system arrived.

He had spent decades training with Sim-Jake, and while that had indeed felt like it had taken a while, it didn’t feel longer than a few weeks, tops. This was odd because the Tutorial was still clear in his mind, and if he was asked how long that had taken in comparison to that training session, he would have said the Tutorial was definitely longer.

The same was true for the Treasure Hunt, which had been even shorter than the Tutorial by quite a deal, yet still felt long… maybe because something was happening all the time. Nevermore was a bit similar to this, though it did also have a lot of nothing in there. Floor after floor proved challenging in different ways, and whatever downtime he did have could be filled with alchemy or experimenting. Even when that was not an option, and things began to drag on, he had pretty good company to talk to.

Jake was speaking of Sylphie, of course.

In conclusion, Nevermore was an odd mix of feeling extremely long and extremely short at the same time. Somewhere in between the Tutorial and Sim-Jake duel. Even if he logically knew it had taken a while, he was still kind of surprised when they left the in-between room and entered yet another city floor as the Sword Saint made a comment.

“Just a bit under three decades already, huh?” he muttered partly to himself. “Time certainly flies.”

“Truly, it has already been thirty years? Hmm, I suppose the last few floors did take longer than expected,” the Fallen King commented.

“Yeah,” Dina nodded to both the comment about how long they had been inside Nevermore and how these last few floors had taken much longer than they had wanted them to. Floor seventyhad ended up taking them nearly two full years due to how damn annoying it had been.

“Damn, you are right,” Jake muttered. “Doesn’t feel that long, huh?”

As they were talking, an expected notification popped up in front of them.

At least Jake had thought it would be the expected one…

Congratulations! You have arrived on the Fourteenth City Floor of Nevermore.

All violence outside of the arenas is strictly prohibited on all city floors. Challenge Dungeon(s) can be found in the central square. If Nevermore is left and reentered, you will automatically be taken to the latest city floor unlocked.

You have successfully completed the second portion of Nevermore and is now entering the latter floors of the C-grade section. From floor seventy-one onwards, all floors will be even larger in scope. All basic floor completion bonuses will be increased twofold to compensate for the increased floor sizes moving forward.

Challenge Dungeons’ growth limit has been reached. All available Challenge Dungeons have been unlocked.

Jake stopped walking as he read the message. “Second portion completed? Damn, I was sure it would be after floor eighty.”

“Not entirely unexpected,” the Sword Saint commented. “This may indicate there are a hundred C-grade floors in total.”

“Even if that is so, we have two decades left,” the Fallen King added. “Clearing more floors will net more points, but we should reconsider if that is the best approach.”

“Ree?”

“Yes, exactly,” the Fallen King nodded.

Jake considered, and Sylphie was probably right. Alas, before they would have to make a decision, they wanted to go check out the Leaderboards.

someone from the Order had appeared. They even had someone from the Pantheon of Life pop up at one point to talk to Dina and give them some

toward the Leaderboards to check how they

an update,” he said, Jake frowning. He hadn’t even noticed anyone out of the ordinary observing

just send it to you?”

follower of Aeon. Anyway, the latest scoop is

the latest happenings as they quickly reached the pretty empty

Points (Floor 1-70):

big? Sure, but one must remember that the basic floor completion bonuses had increased significantly. Just completing floors forty-one to seventy would net 166,500 Nevermore Points, so to only get around a

it was actually only a bit more

Record

had it, and not losing it was great. Of

as they were aware, a bit over a dozen groups they knew of were ahead of them, most of which Jake had no idea who was, but apparently, that beast group that had overtaken them a few times was one of these groups. Another one of those ahead he, unfortunately, did know quite well was Ell’Hakan, who had managed to cheese far more of these floors than they had been able to. The fundamental problem was that most floors had people on them, and Ell’Hakan’s Bloodline was simply too well-suited for those kinds of situations. In places where Jake and company had to act solo or purposefully avoid

openly and spreading the news. He simply

get far fewer points. Likely because convincing B-grades to help you wasn’t unheard of, even for a C-grade. Now, convincing a god, that was awesome. But Ell’Hakan hadn’t bragged about getting those Starcross Twins on his side, so Jake assumed he had failed or possibly

pretty much every other group they knew was not, and many weren’t really going for high spots on the Leaderboards anymore. Caleb and Maria had both communicated they were

bloody idea what Arnold was up

it to around floor seventy. He would rate floors forty to seventy rather disappointing in the challenge aspect, and they had only gotten a single more Grand Achievements outside of the Dark Witch one. That one also “only” provided a 5% bonus at the final calculation, making the Minaga one still stand out. Then again, the Minaga fight was still the

were few and far between. The final boss on floor seventy had been stronger than Minaga, true, but the thing is, so had Jake and everyone else

they were actively progressing all throughout this time. As they were walking toward a small house to discuss future plans, Just to put things

been quite

Status

Name: Jake Thayne

[Human (C) – 222 -->

[Arcane Hunter of Horizon’s Edge –

the Malefic Viper – 226

Health Points (HP): 139,110/139,110

Mana Points (MP): 298,921/298,921

Stamina: 149,651/149,770

Stats

Strength: 10922 --> 17707

Agility: 15391 --> 23894

Endurance: 10476 --> 14977

Vitality: 11053 --> 13911

Toughness: 8986 --> 11062

Wisdom: 14357 --> 19131

Intelligence: 11698 --> 16021

Perception: 30882 --> 40308

Willpower: 12336 --> 16664

Free points: 0

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