Jason pauses as another thing becomes clear to him. ‘In fact! In fact, this would be the difference between mortal and primordial Energy. My mortal Energy is able to replace itself in equal amounts to it being destroyed, converted, or otherwise neutralized. That is why the threads in the stomp can continue to attack but they don’t ever grow ...
2021-08-18 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostLater on back in the dungeon, Doyle is tweaking a few things on the second floor when a pop up interrupts him.
{Disconnecting Energy Well influence from external Territory...
Town Anchor applying area restrictions to Energy Well influence...
New Options available for Town/Dungeon interactions}
‘Huh’, Doyle pauses, ‘...
2021-08-13 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt once again takes a good bit of time for Jason to fall into his moving meditation. He really just does not jive with it. Still, he powers through and returns to watching the flow of his stats. Then it vanishes barely a few minutes later as the first change to the next form happens.
Jason shakes his head and centers himself again before r...
2021-08-11 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy the point Jason had gotten into the flow, though, it was almost dinnertime. So, with a bit of regret, he finishes up and heads back to the house.
After a delicious stew, Jason spends a bit of time with his regular meditation to see if he can now pick stuff out but without the movement everything is blank. Just another example of the Sys...
2021-08-11 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAce groans, “Well, that sounds like a problem for the future.”
Lily laughs, “Or not even your problem at all. Let those kingdom builders take care of it. For now, just focus on your town.”
Ace just lazily waves his hand in the air as he calls up the town panel.
{[Unnamed] Dungeon Town
Coffers: 0
[System Buil...
2021-08-06 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAce sighs, “Check early and check often, got it.”
Lily giggles, “You could say that. Though after a certain point, things should stabilize to the point you only need to check after new boss floors pop up. After all, it isn’t like you are controlling the dungeon’s internal space with this. You’re just poking at whatever the dung...
2021-08-06 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJason sighs, “Any advice on which yard to check out?”
Peter nods, “I actually do. Not all yards are made the same. You’ve seen one without realizing what it was already. Or at least you should have seen as you’ve been outside the walls. The one outside the gate closest to here is mostly what you’re going to find. A large empty ...
2021-08-04 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes Jason a good portion of the next day to finally come to a decision. His stats are wrong. Technically, before level 100 what he currently has would be fine. Everyone will have just core stats to provide a good base for the future. After level 100 however, they start to unlock special stats depending on what they’ve done.
A wizard...
2021-08-04 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAce politely claps as the orc finishes his presentation. “A bit out of our price range but I’m excited to see my people outfitted properly. With how quick the dungeon is growing, it shouldn’t take too long.”
The orc nods, “I will admit that gold can be tight. But that is why this isn’t a farmers store. No! This is a store for d...
2021-07-30 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith a starting point, Jason can finally dig into what is up with his stats. “System, show me Energetic Body Reinforcement.”
{Energetic Body Reinforcement
Accepting only purity of body and mind you have given up past concepts of self for the uncertainty of truth.
Apprentice Level 8 - 33.41%
Rarity: Tr...
2021-07-28 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe meal was nice but Dinner focused on Jason and his question. Peter was suitably shocked at Jason’s status, being able to show the difference between his base stats and bonus stats. Of course things like equipment bonuses would be shown broken out but that would be easy enough to figure out by just taking the stuff off.
After that, tho...
2021-07-28 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs Ace exits the leather workshop, he glances over at the town hall but shakes his head. While the temptation of seeing what is up with the only building they actually built themselves is tempting, he wanted to get through the rest of them first. Good thing there isn’t much left, just the general store and the delver store.
Of which Ace ...
2021-07-23 10:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the door is closed Ace can no longer hear the Butcher’s demands and so with a smile he heads over to the well-placed right in front of town hall. It is a quaint little construction looking like a classic wishing well except for the fact the two poles holding up the roof are made of two big bones. A quick look in shows there actually is wa...
2021-07-23 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason completely forgets his original goal of figuring out the sixth step for Energy and continues to wool gather over concepts and how they fit into NeoRealm and the System. Though the only advancement this provides him is 0.001 percent to his Civilization concepts and Jason admits to himself, that was likely related to his first thoughts about...
2021-07-21 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason frowns at Ascendance only going up 0.003 percent. ‘Well, at least now I know it isn’t locked at two decimal points. Though yeah, I can’t just mull over stuff like this until I max it. I already had some understanding of this sort of thing and this was simply connecting it together. An important thing to do and if it was entirely new ...
2021-07-21 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe old man laughs, “If you have someone with experience butchering things or at least has the skill for it then you don’t need me for much. From what I can remember of other times the system has used a me I tend to be unbothered once a town grows enough. There have even been times when a town has closed the butcher shop though I don’t adv...
2021-07-16 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLong story short? The other book didn’t have any further help for Jason. He read the whole book and then reread the Energy specific parts but nothing jumped out at him. Despite the person assisting the author having put down a few of the steps that is as far as they had gotten it seems. Jason can only shake his head, ‘The System is most defi...
2021-07-14 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason shakes his head and refocuses on the last two steps. For the sixth he is still missing the Energy equivalent so for now can only write down how it works with Mana and Qi. And what there is to write down just makes him realize how tricky it is going to be to figure out the Energy equivalent.
Because this is the one step with the most ...
2021-07-14 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAce can only sigh and turn towards where Jimmy had built the town hall and is happy to see it in the same place they left it. The place wouldn’t do as good of a job in pretending to hide a secret if it was shifted over a building or two. Besides that, though, there are six other buildings around it and Ace can see a number of beings inside the...
2021-07-09 10:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone at the settlement waits for a few minutes as Jimmy is inside doing whatever needs done. For the first bit there are just sounds of him hitting something, but soon there are strange light phenomena coming out of the doors and windows. Then to wrap it up Jimmy starts cursing and he runs out of the front door while colorfully telling every...
2021-07-09 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostJason can only shrug and continue on with his research. Everything is almost complete and he just needs to fill in the gap. Mana and Qi both had seven steps specific to them, so Energy must as well. Though in the back of his head Jason did admit that this wasn’t necessarily true, he was willing to run with it for now.
Of the seven steps,...
2021-07-07 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAll that aside, Jason now has two methods of improving his Energy. Both to grow the amount the System allows and the untapped base amount as well. Though looking more closely at the first technique, Jason notices that it isn’t really a technique per se. Rather, it feels more like a couple of exercises out of a routine. As if he had a ripped pi...
2021-07-07 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days a similar scene will repeat itself. Every morning, two teams of six will show up. One focused on farming food and the other tried to reach the third floor and the ore. This works decently well despite losing a person on the second day because of the last kobold on the first floor unexpectedly leading their goats out to joi...
2021-07-02 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnknown to Jason and quite luckily for him as well, those researchers and such that are observing him are incapable of detecting the three conceptual powers. To them it looks like a lot of power is entering his body only to disappear. This is of course strange, but not on the level of “bust down the door and take him in for questioning” stra...
2021-06-30 10:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostJason thanks Gregor for the book and heads back to his room to give it a read before he logs off for the night. No matter how interesting it is, he will have enough time to read it tomorrow and in the future. The book itself isn’t too big and since it is so common he can probably pick one up for cheap enough so should provide some light readin...
2021-06-30 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen it comes to the two teams from upriver, Susan isn’t wrong about them. While not as decked out as the idiot from yesterday, they still have some of the “finest” pre-system gear their town has to offer. And while the 12 guys are competent enough, they aren’t up to the standards of even the crafters in the settlement. None of them has ...
2021-06-25 10:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day comes and with a little tweaking of the plan by Susan, Ace’s idea works. The boat arrives filled to the brim with 15 people on it. One is of course the captain, 12 plan to delve the dungeon in two parties, and the last two are a bit more tricky. The settlement up the river doesn’t mind the equipment lost within the dungeon, but ...
2021-06-25 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnd Gregor wasn’t lying about looking for something in the library. You would think that with such a small library he would know where everything was. Jason however learns upon them entering the library that there is more to it than expected. What had looked like normal shelves soon prove otherwise, as magical runes light up and they start to ...
2021-06-23 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostBack in NeoRealm, Jason once again starts to question if he can train his soul or not instead of just trying. Now though that he has cleared his head irl and has a tighter grip on himself this doesn’t deter him. If the soul can be trained in NeoRealm that would be a major breakthrough and another oddity. He had already tried some basic things ...
2021-06-23 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAce face palms, “Okay, so we don’t need to worry too much about mind control because that idiot true immortal who stumbled upon our dimension bought a system biased against it. Is there anything else worrying you would like to add?”
Kelly shrugs, “I’m sure I know all kinds of worrying things but nothing right now that relates to ...
2021-06-18 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post