Jakob H. Greif

Chapter 308: Storming the Beaches

Twenty S-Rankers stood ready to finish off the cult for good.

Davy Jones and Captain Nemo, nominally just independents with concerns about what might happen if the cult were allowed to remain.

The entire team, obviously.

All three of Camelot’s S-Rankers, and several lower-Level people.

They’d brought in Fenrir, of course, as the ever-reliable independent actor.

Chapter 307: Doomsday Clock

So, i made a small mistake in the last chapter, Isaac's Level is 184 instead of 189.

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“What is that stench?” Arthur asked as he walked alongside Isaac across campus.

“Weed,” Isaac said.

“I know it’s weed, why does your campus stink like it?” Arthur raised an eyebrow.

“O...

Chapter 306: The Final Army

Isaac sat on an asteroid, gazing out at the inner system. There were countless other asteroids around him, plenty of them, but they were so far away that a normal person would barely have been able to see even a bare handful, and even to Isaac, they were just specks.

Ceres was currently on the other side of the sun from his current position, and the nearest asteroid miner was several ligh...

Chapter 305: The World Keeps on Turning

“So, we just discovered one of the most heinous criminals of the decade, and it somehow took eight years,” Elenah commented, letting the statement hang in the middle of the room, “How on Earth did we miss this?”

“We weren’t looking for him,” Isaac responded, “He was hiding way too well, and we really weren’t looking into disappearances. We couldn’t, not with everything...

Chapter 304: Ultima Ratio

Mmh, Salmon of Wisdom sushi. Isaac smiled as he took another piece of sashimi, with chopsticks, of course, dragged it through the soy sauce, and chomped down on it, the already massive grin widening to the point where his face looked like it was about to crack in half.

With Salmon from Tiers 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 already devoured, Isaac was currently sitting at a cool +50% Mana Regeneration.<...

Chapter 303: Interlude Jason

Why was it always warehouses? Why not a mansion, with some nice booze in the wine cabinet he could pilfer and drink while walking in on the bad guy, who’d obviously be in some kind of compromising situation that he could comment on while rattling off all the various crimes that would be fucking him over.

He’d had an excuse to break into a mansion, once. This had been early on, before ...

Chapter 302: Interlude Jason

It was a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of the city, simple from the outside, heavily fortified from the inside, with almost fifty armed mercenaries waiting for another chance to get at Calise.

Apparently, their first attempt had been on the small side, to avoid drawing attention by having half a military convoy traipse through downtown Milan.

They were currently in the “w...

Chapter 301: Interlude Jason

The others were having fun at the moment, beating down [Raid Bosses]. First, it had just been Isaac and his team, but later, they’d started inviting other allies to help whenever there was an official explanation for the connection, so a good chunk of the Round Table was busy with that.

But poor ol’ Jason, the man in the shadows, there was no apparent reason for anyone to know him, an...

Chapter 300: Let’s Bloody GO!

For most of human history, there’d been two kinds of scientific discoveries.

The first was when people kept chipping away at a problem, envisioning the final result and continuing to work to get closer to it. The airplane, for example. The Wright brothers had wanted to fly, so they’d built prototype after prototype until something worked.

The second, meanwhile, was all about acc...

Chapter 299: Hidden Aspects

As per usual, Isaac had pitted the twins against the most basic monster possible. The Slate Golems were almost perfect punching bags, especially for people who could fly.

Of course, Isaac also made sure to throw in plenty of impossible foes at them, the kind that they’d asked to face and then had to be rescued from to ensure they didn’t get any dumb ideas about punching too far above ...

Chapter 298: The Kids

Isaac grinned as he sat on the bench, gazing out across the seemingly endless ocean of the Arctic sanctuary. Every single sanctuary gained a central building from the boss, which, in this case, amounted to an artificial “iceberg” that was mostly made of glass and ceramics.

This place was the least visited dimension, it was just too cold. It had also been a pain in the ass to explore, ...

Chapter 297: The Big House

There were many, many depressing places in the world.

For example, mental wards, and hospitals, especially nowadays when the only people who had to stay at those places were the truly dire cases who were beyond immediate magical intervention.

But prisons were also up there. Even in Germany, which tried to ensure that people who only had short prison sentences had a good shot at reen...

Chapter 296: A Fundamental Shift

“Isaac, we finally got approval, come to my office when you have the time.”

Oh, fucking finally.

Isaac grabbed the note from his desk, crumpled it up, and threw it in the trashcan before heading over to Bailey’s office. Permanent biomantic alteration had finally been officially approved.

Bailey had been extremely reluctant to change others for one simple reason. Any chan...

Chapter 295: War in the Sanctuary

“We got a big delivery,” Isaac announced as a literal metric ton of materials was dropped onto the square outside the building, “No one touches it until it’s been checked over.”

Jason wasn’t being subtle, having literally just dumped out all the stuff in padded boxes, making sure to remove it from his storage devices a meter above the floor to ensure there was a loud clatter.<...

Chapter 294: The only remaining “Secret Cabal”

“You know things are bad that when the Bundeskanzlerin responds to a proposal by saying ‘if my grandson were here, he’d run over to the bookshelf, show me one of his dystopian novels, and talk about how this plan is its plot’,” Habicht grumbled.

“What was the proposed plan?” Japinder asked.

“Way I was told, it was all about requiring people to do a certain minimum of...

Chapter 293: The Work Never Ends

As it turned out, the world could behave, to a certain degree. And it had, for almost ten months. No big blowups, and only three errant [Raid Bosses], but they had been taken down by people, not nukes.

Working on generally creating ways for people to support themselves without regular jobs being available. Figuring out a simple plan for basic gear and Aspect [Skills] for killing ...

Chapter 292: Recruitment

Finding people who would take part in a global conspiracy, willing to work to alter the entire world, was hard.

Finding people who should take part was a hell of a lot harder.

Suitable personality.

Sufficient usefulness.

And the ability to look at the world as a whole, and help it over supporting one’s country of origin.

The last one especially was a sti...

Chapter 291: Paying the Piper

What would the god of mischief find funny?

A whoopie cushion would probably get him to crack a smile or something, but Isaac had promised to do something that would be genuinely funny. In his mind, as per his personal definition of the word, that required something more. And drawing on someone else’s definition of the concept might work, but it also might not. So why not go a l...

Chapter 290: This Could Be Used for Evil

Isaac stared at the magical device at the center of the table like it was a delicate piece of artwork, or maybe a terrified small animal that might die of fright if he so much as gave it a stern look.

It was also a mess of wires, rune plates delicately balanced on said wires, fragile glass connectors, and things Isaac barely had a name for, let alone understood.

But it worked, sort ...

Chapter 289: Return to the Nightmare City

As per usual, Isaac relegated himself to the corner of the room when magical items were being experimented on. He couldn’t meaningfully contribute, so he made sure to stay out of everyone’s way.

The phlebotinum had come in very handy in the next few iterations of the summoning disruptor, allowing it to stay up for minutes at a time, but even when pitted against the weakest monsters po...

Chapter 288: A Foe Most Annoying

The oddly named Nebula Avatar wielded a combination of cloud, lightning, and space-based magic.

Its name was either a weird pun on part of the Dungeon, or the [System] had been smoking something particularly strong at some point in the last few months.

Either way, that thing was the very definition of a pain in the ass. Lighting constantly arcing all over the place, space making app...

Chapter 287: Temporary Team

In hindsight, Isaac really should have expected this many people to want to join him despite the fact that he was going to the Twisted Palace. That Dungeon was almost universally thought of as being supremely annoying, messy, and tended to ruin your gear.

But having an embarrassment of choices when it came to teammates was a good thing.

He ended up going with a party of four, one ot...

Chapter 286: Excitement Emergency

Unfortunately, having an almost empty time pool to fuel [Continent Strider] meant that he had to walk. Li Mei got him close with a [Portal], but none of the other [Portal] users had been around to teleport him the rest of the way.

On the way there, Han had sent him some “alibi messages” clarifying why his presence would be useful, which Isaac had responded to with “that’s super cr...

Chapter 285: Ceres

Orbital Mechanics were an absolute nightmare.

Finding golems falling through the atmosphere was easy. Aim for your target and fly straight at it. And finding one that was a little outside the atmosphere wasn’t that much harder.

Flying to the moon … tough, but doable.

Traveling halfway across the solar system, meanwhile, was a nightmare.

But by abusing [Bless...

Chapter 284: Once More Into the Deep

All around Isaac, there was nothing. Just an endless sea of blackness and, well, seawater. Oh, and there was the usual array of microscopic life suspended in the water, silt, sand particles, and the like, but that wasn’t really something “solid”.

Several kilometers underwater, in the Marianna Trench, in the middle of the night, on a new moon.

Isaac wasn’t entirely certain if...

Chapter 283: World of Aspects, The Rest

It had taken most of the week to get the required Hydra Aspects, mostly due to how they’d had to wait for cooldown [Skills] to become available again, but they’d done it and now, Isaac wanted to go for the very first Aspect he’d ever gotten.

There were a few very nasty Tier 10 ephemeral monsters available, but in the end, simplicity was where it was at.

Raw power, a flexible f...

Chapter 282: World of Aspects, The First One

Two years to get the necessary [Skill], three days to fully incorporate it into his fighting style, one week to wait for a certain [Archsage of Magic] to come back from outer friggin space because Isaac didn’t have enough mana to summon the needed monsters and Patrick had the biggest mana pool of the entire team.

Not that Isaac begrudged him the chance to show off a little, he ...

Chapter 281: Interlude Habicht

“So, Isaac’s now called ‘the Sage’, right? I was thinking we need epithets as well.”

“How about you go by ‘Duck’, Amy? After all, that, that tends to be everyone’s first reaction when you show up on the battlefield. Or maybe ‘Duckie’?”

While Arthur was being a bit hyperbolic here, he did have a point. While Amy was a master of artillery and would never hit an...

Chapter 280: There are Laws even in Outer Space

“What am I looking at?” Isaac asked, staring at a mess of rocks, a shattered civilian starship, and several the Golems floating in space.

“Earth-Moon Lagrange Point Three. It’s under a cloaking spell, but we managed to pierce it when we focussed our observation satellite on it.”

“Why did it take this long?” Isaac asked, “Shouldn’t we have been able to back...

Chapter 279: New Area of Responsibility

Those of you who've been following this story for a while might, theoretically, possibly, have picked up on the fact that my upload scedule is a wee bit ... all over the bloody place.

That's due to the fact that I don't have an upload schedule, I upload around five minutes after I'm done writing a chapter (long enough for one final check, basically), and my writing schedule can e...