The Primal Hunter

Chapter 964: Keeping Up the Good Fight Chapter 964: Keeping Up the Good Fight

Jake and Miranda met up inside the Prima Vessel as they both looked at the map that had more and more green flags by the day but also more grey ones as quite a few of the planets who had tried to face the Prima Guardian event alone fell to the attack. This was an expected outcome, as nobody had expected every planet to get out unscathed.

The appearance of the black flags was not expected, though. However, they had held on hope when they saw only one of them that it was some kind of anomaly. Jake had even theorized that maybe the creature had given its own life to somehow destroy the core or done something it could only do once.

Now, it was clear this wasn’t a one-off. What’s more, the creature known as ”I” had figured out how to destroy a core far faster than before. This also fully eliminated any possibility of it consuming these cores in any way, as there was no way in hell it had enough time to digest a Planetary Core this quickly. It was purposefully destroying them, dooming entire worlds.

One huge question still bothered them, though.

”Why is it doing this?” Miranda thought out loud. ”I checked the notes we had on the targeted planet, and it wasn’t just some random place. It was part of Ell’Hakan’s alliance, so unless this is some extreme plan to make us think they are unrelated to one another, I can’t see a world where this creature and Ell’Hakan are allies. This makes me think this targeting is indiscriminatory and random.”

”It likely is,” Jake muttered. ”This creature appeared out of nowhere. It didn’t hesitate to end its own planet and now moved on to do the same thing with a second one. I believe it’s just following its Path. There is no logic or reasoning behind the action besides just doing what it’s born to do.”

”So it’s a living calamity of some kind,” Miranda sighed, less than amused by the notion.

Jake slowly nodded, thinking that was entirely possible. Creatures like that could just be born anywhere randomly but tended to be in areas with powerful Records… and the Milky Way Galaxy was already a maelstrom of Records at this point. The unexpected was almost to be expected with their circumstances.

”Any idea what kind of creature it could be? Doesn’t seem to fit the description of a Plague Spirit or anything curse-based. It’s also clearly intelligent if it can teleport to other planets using the Prima Vessel or other system-provided magic circles... do you think it might be enlightened, seeing as it was the World Leader?” Miranda asked curiously, though Jake knew she was as much surmising out loud as she was actually asking.

”We simply don’t have enough information yet,” Jake shook his head. ”There is one more thing, though… why would anyone accept the creature’s request to teleport to their planet if they see it applying from a planet marked with a black flag?”

”A better question would be if its request even needs to be accepted anymore or if it can force its way in,” Miranda said in a grave voice. ”Either way, we should stay alert in case it somehow ends up going to Earth while hoping it chooses to focus on Ell’Hakan’s alliance. If we get lucky, perhaps your rival Chosen deals with it.”

”Not sure I count him as my rival,” Jake muttered. ”Who knows, maybe this creature ends up killing Ell’Hakan? That would sure be a plot twist of the ages.”

”A rather anti-climactic one after all the buildup of his story,” Miranda commented in a deadpan tone.

”Would be kind of funny, though,” Jake joked, fully aware it wasn’t going to happen. Ell’Hakan was definitely the careful sort, and he wouldn’t risk fighting an unknown entity like that without any information. He was way more likely to throw a few planets at ”I” to learn what he was dealing with before stepping up himself.

try to find a way to make it fight Jake and potentially even kill Jake. Not only would that allow Ell’Hakan to get rid of Jake, but it would also minimize the backlash from having done so. Yeah, that was definitely

single person he had sent there just to get a recording of Jake. Speaking of that entire thing… Miranda hadn’t made any negative comments about Jake’s conduct, even when he explained what he’d done. In fact, quite

with no good options. If you killed the World Leaders, you wouldn’t just have to slay them but many of their supporters, all of your actions getting recorded. Such a recording could quickly spread to the rest of the galaxy, and it would make our job much harder, even with Kindroth helping out. On the other hand, backing down entirely and letting them handle the Prima Guardian would make you appear incredibly meek and weak. Ultimately, I do agree your approach of killing the Prima Guardian while seemingly not being that interested in the two World Leaders was the best. It made you appear as nothing but a professional hunter just going around killing Guardians and not much else. As for that entire thing with your Fangs of Man skill… no comment. That is, in all honesty, far above my paygrade and something you’ll have to talk to the Malefic Viper about directly once that’s possible. No way I wanna risk saying the wrong thing, potentially pissing off a Primordial or

he was back. Not to say Jake thought he had done things perfectly, but he hadn’t messed up enough for Miranda to make a big deal out of it. He just hoped that the moment he reestablished his connection with the Malefic Viper, the god wouldn’t

in front of the star map, Miranda turned to

his head. ”How about all

lack of proper enlightened infrastructure. From what I heard, these planets also aren’t very stable and they were helping a bit there. Your brother and Maria haven’t been back here since the last time

rightful author, this tale is not meant to

they had landed on

reservation, but she also wasn’t wrong in that it was pretty accurate. The Risen had been given an island quite a good distance into the ocean, with extremely deep water all around it, which would serve as a

around the island to the death affinity, but they didn’t fear it spreading out into the wider ocean. While they would release a lot of death affinity energy into the water, a far greater constant

and flames hanging in the center of their little solar system, shining down its rays upon their planet and infusing it with life every day. As long as the Risen didn’t put up barriers also covering the water, the powers of the sun were more than enough to

these, turning them into domains where the dead tended to live in great numbers. Countless undead monsters could appear, especially in the unique galaxies that happened to have both death and life stars at the same

to hear the Risen were settling in. He just hoped the rest of the population wasn’t being too dickish

of complainers?” Jake

they sent and making sure to properly vet and inform them of issues they could face returning here, so they are handling it like champs,” Miranda said with a sigh. ”And before you ask, I have considered several times taking off a few weeks to go kill a Prima Guardian or two with a few others for a damn holiday, but I fear that

the bright side, this has to give

class levels I really need, and I’m not sure trying to get more class levels through this conflict

down frogs on the protestors. That ought to make

to do something like that is in no way simple, and actually using

a frog rain?” Jake asked, seriously questioning if Miranda was even a real

it was a vital ability to learn despite it having no use-case. Would you believe me if I said they even want me to learn how to make the

good frog rain doesn’t also include a rain of insults,” Jake said

prior conversation had never happened. ”Of those who left Earth, I have yet to hear anything from the members of the Holy Church. Not that I necessarily expected them to come

Miranda to change the subject before she decided to throw frogs