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.

he could handle himself, he would try to find a way to make it fight Jake and potentially even kill Jake. Not only would that allow Ell’Hakan to

on that scalekin World Leader’s planet was proof of how underhanded the other Chosen could be when he wanted, as Ell’Hakan had clearly been willing to sacrifice two World Leaders and every 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

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

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 instantly tell him he

his attention to the present situation in front of the star map, Miranda turned to Jake. ”What’s your next target

undecided,” Jake said, shaking his head. ”How about all the others? Are

had to deal with here on Earth and took a few day’s break. Sylphie, the Fallen King, and the True Royal are taking quite a while with each planet due to their unique circumstances and lack of proper enlightened infrastructure. From what I heard, these planets also aren’t very stable and they were helping

this tale is not

about was the permanent presence the Risen wanted to establish back on Earth, and the solution they had landed on was to give them their own pretty large area to

in that it was pretty accurate. The Risen had been given an island quite a good distance into

be great at absorbing other affinities and mixing with it – hence its use in all forms of alchemy. This would attune the waters 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 infusion of life energy would limit its

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

death-affinity stars existed elsewhere in the universe. There were entire galaxies that only had stars like 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 time, leading to a balance of constantly giving birth to powerful like that in death tuned into powerful undead. It was definitely the kind of galaxy Jake would one day want to visit for recreational and

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

due to their presence yet? Lots of complainers?” Jake asked, knowing that the

with Risen just minding their own business. Not really any problem from the Risen side, though. Casper and Priscilla have been good at controlling the ones they sent and making sure to properly vet and inform them of issues they could face returning here, so they are handling it like

has to give a lot of

no way concerned my profession won’t reach peak C-grade first. It’s class levels I really need, and I’m not sure trying to get more

could always rain down frogs on the protestors. That ought to make them stop and think,” Jake

even know how to make a frog rain? Learning to do something like that is in no way simple, and actually using such a skill isn’t practical in the slightest

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

Miranda sighed. ”My Patrons insisted it was a vital ability to learn despite it having no use-case. Would you believe me

also include a rain of insults,” Jake said as if it

for a moment before gladly changing the subject entirely as if the prior conversation had never happened. ”Of those who left Earth, I have yet to hear anything from the members of the Holy Church. Not

already know they work with Ell’Hakan or at least have some kind of agreement,” Jake shrugged, allowing Miranda to