The Primal Hunter

Chapter 1017: A Proper Reintroduction What even are Records?

Tension hung thick in the air above Primordial-4 as the standoff continued, neither side making any moves as they waited for the battle between the Malefic Viper and Yip of Yore to conclude.

One side was obviously more confident than the other as if they were just waiting for Yip to clean things up and claim his rightful title of Primordial Slayer. Yip of Yore had made all the preparations possible, made himself into a being specialized in killing the Malefic Viper, and grown faster than any other god in recorded history.

If he couldn’t kill the Malefic Viper, who could? The result was inevitable to the gods supporting Yip, making them adopt a gloating demeanor in front of the gods from the Order of the Malefic Viper.

Valhal kept the same stance as before, with the only thing change being Eversmile who’d appeared beside Valdemar, something that didn’t strike anyone as weird as they were obviously both gods supporting Yip’s conquest.

As they stood there, Valdemar looked down at Eversmile with a raised eyebrow, the area around them already isolated. “What’s in this for you?”

Eversmile looked up at the War God with his eternal smile. “Whatever do you mean?”

“You know what I mean. You’re not the type to do anything out of the kindness of your heart, so why get involved in all this?” Valdemar asked, not showing his usual simple demeanor. “Even you siding with Yip wouldn’t make any sense unless he offered you something really good.”

“He did offer me something really good,” Eversmile said casually.

“And what did Vilas offer you?”

“Nothing,” Eversmile sighed. “At least nothing tangible. It’s more accurate to say that after this, we are considered even regarding certain matters.”

Valdemar frowned a bit at what he said before his eyes lit up in realization. “This was all to pay him back for what happened with that kid?”

“Oh? I’m surprised you know about that,” Eversmile said in genuine surprise.

“Had to watch some clips of Jake’s Tutorial... I guess you can say that was part of my deal,” Valdemar said with a laugh before turning a bit more serious again. “I still don’t get it... you owed him a favor, sure, but not all favors are the same. This seems like you did quite a bit more for him than he did for you. Especially seeing as how your experiment fell through. Pretty sure that boy of yours is now a heretic.”

Now it was Eversmile’s turn to chuckle. “Who says the experiment is over?”

Valdemar looked at him for a few seconds before sighing. “I still don’t get you... oh, and also, I heard you sold being on Yip’s side by saying you want Vilas dead? How did you pull that one off?”

“There is nothing to pull off when speaking the truth.”

“You actually want Yip to kill Vilas?” Valdemar asked, his emotions hard to read.

“Of course I do,” the karmic mage said without a moment’s hesitation as he kept waiting for the battle between the two gods to fully conclude and for the result to be announced to everyone... even if said result was entirely predictable.

As for wanting the Viper dead, he really was speaking the truth. Eversmile was a researcher. He researched karma and the best way for new karma to be formed was through new situations. Nothing was better than entirely original scenarios with several actors taking part. Especially high-level actors with genuine power.

of Yore to kill the Malefic Viper? Because nothing was better than when the outcome wasn’t the expected one but something no one had seen coming. Well, more accurately, a result no one with full information

why he wanted to see the Viper fall... because he’d

stood on the ruined Great Planet within the Void Sphere dimension as he admired his creation. Admittedly, it wasn’t impressive from a visual perspective, seeing as it was just an odd mass made of skin, scales, and flesh that was pulsing as if it had a heartbeat,

mattered was what

had taken a while to shave off all the useless parts, such as Yip’s entire own Path. Yip’s Path was impressive in the eyes of many, and it had allowed him to get where he was today, but that didn’t mean consuming such

was dilute his own Path with the Records of a lesser being. His own Path was already superior to Yip’s, so why would he bother absorbing any part of it? No, the only thing he needed was the contemporary Records and aspects of Yip’s Path related to momentum, growth, and “newness.” The Records

had miscalculated everything, with his biggest miscalculation being that the Viper wouldn’t have been able to grow a lot during his

He’d been progressing all the time, absorbed the Records of the multiverse whenever a new universe was integrated, and pushed himself further and further. Plus, he

least when it came to

thing he hadn’t done was proper fighting. He hadn’t killed anything for perhaps the longest period of time of any being in the entire multiverse. He hadn’t done

That meant right now, he was more likely than not the weakest of all the Primordials... though not by a wide margin. With the treasure he’d just created, he would make up

easy to get a lot of class levels fast, something that was also true for

for what exactly he’d

that represented the Viper’s past – had now been replaced with Yip’s Records entirely, meaning that the Viper would essentially be reabsorbing his own Records only, at least in the eyes of the system. One couldn’t easily absorb the Records of other beings, after all, especially not as a god, which was why he needed to do a bit of

on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please

waited a bit longer as everything settled down entirely within the item he’d dubbed the Dragon Molt’s Embrace. He was waiting for the system to do its thing, the aura of the item to change, and

left the large mass of scales, flesh, and skin... and

slain

Yip was alive and conscious throughout the entire process, but keeping him alive resulted in a better end product. The Viper licked his lips and just looked at the mass but

for the assist,” the god said as he reached forward and from the mass, pulled a small ball of scales. Summoning a small wooden box for preservation, he

finally dig in. The Viper opened his mouth as space distorted, and the mass of flesh flew toward the Viper, shrinking as it entered his maw and

of energy flooding his body, his aura fluctuating for a moment before calming down, settling as a few levels came in from just that. Taking a deep breath, he looked at his hand and opened and closed his fist

better than

best treasure the Malefic Viper had ever consumed, especially taking into considering all the additional items he used as part of the transmutation process. The sheer amount of energy within that mass had been enough to kill a few hundred Godkings at least,

he had promised Valdemar a good spar as part of getting him to lend a

apart. With one of the two gods trapped within dead, it would crumble

the Viper had gotten a bit concerned, as Void Spheres had a limited duration, and Yip of Yore had quite frankly proven

least it had been well worth it to fatten him up adequately through all his and Jake’s scheming, but then again, the best ingredients always

parts of Yip’s Records the Viper had cut off because they weren’t needed... well, those were gone along with the Truesoul back to the system, though the Viper had a good idea where a least some of them would end up. Not that Vilastromoz could do much about that besides

thing to do before he

himself

shuddered as the Void Sphere dimension collapsed. The two within would appear in roughly the same place they had entered, and based on how it had only taken a bit over a day for the sphere to end its duration, everyone knew that

Order were nervous. The Lord Protector also hadn’t stopped defending the Order’s headquarters at any point, with many of those present even expecting

or Godqueens – associated with Yip of Yore fell once the dimension sufficiently broke down, and an unexpected aura began to

shattered what remained as