After a long mission, Jayne finally returned to the outpost. She stopped at the gates, looking at the empty guard posts. She turned to talk to one of the members of her twenty member party.
"Put someone on guard duty while the rest of you come with me. There is something wrong going on, so be on guard for anything.”
The group entered the outpost and things only got worse as not a single person was out on the streets.
“Go check the buildings.” A group of five mercenaries went into the medical building only for one of them to dash out, heading over to Jayne.
“Lady Everval, the medical building is full of unconscious members.”
Jayne told the rest of the group to take up defence positions around the outpost before she headed directly for the meeting hall. Jayne walked in to Eric’s office and asked the man what happened
“Lady Jayne, it was your husband. He came in and, with no warning, started attacking everyone. I think he might have–”
“might have what?”
“my lady, I don’t wish to speak ill of a former member of our mercenary group.”
“What do you mean by former?”
“I was told that Jake gave up all positions of power in both our mercenary group and as the ruler of the settlement back in Australia.”
“And who was it that told you this? Because I can show you exactly what he gave up here, look.” Jayne showed Eric two notifications
Notification
Jake Everval Renounced ownership of territorial power
He has decided to renounce his ownership of territorial power on earth and hand over power to Emma Moore, hand of the demon of the past and Jayne Everval.
Notification
Jake Everval renounced political power over the demon’s hand mercenary group and handed over full power to Erica Blake and Jayne Everval. He has also granted limited power for all branch leaders, present and future.
“As a branch leader yourself, you should have a notification that says you have been given more power within your branch, right? So tell me, when did he not be a member of this mercenary group?”
“My lady, I may have made a grave mistake.”
“You don’t fucken say. Now tell me, where did my husband go and what the fuck happened here? And leave nothing out or I will put that fucken venom back in you and leave you to die.” Eric explained everything that happened while she was gone. Only stopping when it came to the question of who had misinformed him of Jake’s position. But Jayne didn’t even need the answer to that one. After all, it was so obvious. The only one able to fly back to Australia after all was his ex-party member, now lover.
“If I find out she has anything to do with this, nothing will stop me from ripping her head off, you know that, right? Now tell me where my husband is?” Eric nodded his head before answering the question. A minute later, Jayne had left the outpost alone.
Jake
“What the fuck is wrong with these people? Not even someone like Eric can be trusted. Well, fuck him and the rest of this shit hole of a planet. What do I need it for, anyway?” Jake was about to activate his token when he heard a voice he instantly recognised.
“Wait for me.”
Jake looked around and saw a beautiful snake lady jump directly into his arms, instantly transforming as she climbed inside his clothing.
“So you want to come with me then we’ll I guess it wouldn’t hurt to have you along after all.” Jake said before activating the transportation token, leaving behind earth and its political bullshit.
Arriving at Aaliyah’s home world, a young man instantly greeted Jake.
“Welcome back founder, is there anything I can do for you? Also, I have been instructed to inform the higher-ups of your arrival and to give you these." the young man said as he handed over a bag of storage rings.
“Each one holds a runabout and ammunition. It should last the pilot a long time before they would need to be rearmed. We also have a small team of mercenaries. Erica would like you to take back with you once you leave.”
“How the fuck said I’m ever going back to that shit hole.” Jake let out a sigh and forced back his killing intent before continuing
“I have no intention of heading back to earth for sometime so could you send word to Erica? I require her presence.”
“Yes, sir.” The man said before rushing off.
“Well, that was scary. What happened to you, husband? You just scared the crap out of that man and he was only trying to help you.”
“I don’t wish to talk about it.” Jake said abruptly before walking into the cottage. Jake sat down at one of the tables filled with books and picked up the first one.
The tails of the everlasting emperor.
The planet Eridios was in its 95 year of the Hun dynasty, when a crippled man no older than sixteen exited his family’s pavilion for what he thought was the last time
“Little Alan, make sure not to go into the dark forest, there has been sighting of monsters in the area.” A soft voice.
“Yes mum, I’m only going down to the market to buy some pills of power. I will be back by dinnertime.” Alan said. As he ran out of the family’s courtyard before his mum could have stopped him from leaving, after all, his plan was to head directly for the dark forest after all.
Alan had heard from some of the young cultivators from the local cultivation school that there was a strange tool. A tool that could help someone evolve into a powerhouse on the level higher than even the emperor, the heaven’s path will be unable to harm him–
Just as jake was just getting into the book the man from before entered the cottage and bowed to show his respect before saying “lady Erica is on her way she should be hear within a half an hour also the man you worked with last time you were here would like to talk to you about making some new designs he came up with.”
“Harry?” Jake asked.
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“Yes, that’s his name.” The man said.
“Well, tell him to come see me. I would like to look over his new ideas.” Jake said with a happy smile. Before asking one last thing, “do you know who the author of this book is? It doesn’t have anything written on it.”
The man looked at the book for a second, then said with utter confidence.
“the system.”
“What do you mean by that?”
The man smiled then said, “the system hands out books like that one as consolation prizes for those who fail inside the endless towers dungeon. It is quite a prize. After all, if you fail in a dungeon, you die. So saying it’s a consolation prize is a bit of a joke as the one who failed never gets to read it after all.”
“Were is this dungeon, and what danger level is it?”
“Sir, if I were you, I would put that dungeon out of your mind. The only people that enter it are all at God level and a lot of them don’t come back out.”
“God level?” Jake said in surprise. “Why would someone at the peak of power even enter a dungeon?” Jake asked.
“I have heard some rumours that God level is not the peak of power but there is no proof of that.”
After talking to the man for a while, Jake asked if he could bring a large amount of materials to him and, without any complaints, the man left on his new task. Jake looked back at the book, then at the door. “Come in.” Jake said before taking a seat and offering Erica to take one of the others.
“So it’s been a while.”
“Yes, it has,” Jake said before continuing
“so it seems I have made some mistakes in trusting people and I’m going to be honest I don’t trust anyone anymore, especially those who have only tried to increase their own benefits by taking it from me. So I’m going to ask you both a question, Jayne. Are you here to do the same?” Jake’s clothing moved as a snake exited and transformed. “I am here for you and not for benefits. Even if the benefits that the system gives me stop, I would remain.”
“Jake, I am your servant as you rise, so will I? Benefits are part of my contract.”
“One of the two is better than I thought, so as your master, I don’t care what you do. I just request that you give me some items and materials. That being said, I’m going to need a large quantity of metals and two upgrade tokens. After that, I really don’t care what you do.” Only once she left did Jake slump down in his seat.
"Another one gone. I’m feeling more and more alone now.”
“Husband, she doesn’t want to hurt you, it is just her way.”
“I know it’s just, after the dungeon, I can’t have it happen again.”
“I’m here if you ever want to talk.”
Jake shrugged, then continued reading the book. Jake sat in the same spot reading for two days while Jayne looked up everything she could find on alchemy. After two days, Jake finally asked Jayne for a cleaning potion. After using it, he walked to the door and opened it with a smile.
“Harry, it’s good to see you? I was told you have some new ideas. Shall we take a look at them?” Jake said.
The two talked for a day about everything from FTL systems capable of fitting on a shuttle to lighting systems that use less power. It was a riveting conversion that seemed to never end, so when Jayne got up and said she would go take care of some personal business. Neither of the two mean even noticed.
The next day Jake and Harry started working on small projects together one of them being the creation of a new runabout to replace the one that was stolen but this time the runabout would have a biological lockout installed on the throttle system the lock would grant access to the computer system some other items that would be installed would be a compact emergency life-support system tucked in behind the console and of course heaters to keep the occupants warm one other thing that Jake thought impossible was the new design for a compact shield that could emit a bubble that encompasses the runabout the shield would be capable of holding up against light attacks. But one thing Jake really wanted to try was rebuilding his shuttle into a gunship, then using an upgraded token or two on it. Harry had mentioned that it was possible to upgrade a gunship to a corvette as long as they used the upgrade token while still constructing the gunship. So while Jake waited for the next supply of materials, Jake made new equipment for himself and some for Harry to study.
Item list
Soulbound items
×1 Arcane Soul shuttle of the wandering path rare
×1 Transport token
×1 Battle exosuit rare
×1 Clothing of the Wandering Imperium pants and top rare
×1 Boots of the Wandering Imperium rare
×1 Belt of the Wandering Imperium rare
×1 Cloak of the Wandering Imperium epic
Other items
×1 runabout
×1 ritualists pistol 50 cal common
×900 rounds of 50cal ammunition
×50 handgrenades
×10 smoke bombs
×5 arcane infused dagger common
×n/a miscellaneous blueprints
×10 potion x
Now all Jake had left to do was to make his corvette, then go back to earth to bring about a reckoning, as Harry put it. After all, earth is Jake’s home world, and no one has the power to kick him out. Even if he handed over his political power to others, Jake was still a powerhouse on earth after all. Jake still didn’t trust anyone, but Harry made it simple for him. In this universe, the fist will always be stronger than the mouth.
“Just kill everyone that gets in your way, bro.” Harry said as he read through some books Jake had in the cottage while they waited.
“Remind me next time I come here to add some other books to your collection,” Harry said. Before putting the book down and continuing,
“I think we should go see what is taking them so long.”
“Alright, let’s go then.” Jake said.
Stats at the end of the chapter
Universal constant terminal interface
Name Jake everval
Race demon of the past. Unique
Grade F
Information on F grade
Upgrades 600 above previous anyone below this grade in the open universe will not survive unless protected by life-sustaining means such as planetary shields and the like no F graders ever entered space and survived for more than two years without adequate protection.
Level 25. levels required till next grade evaluation 1000 total
Class trooper shadow mage (common)
Class level 1099
Profession Arcane Smith
Profession level 505
stats points available 22,040
Conversion multiplier ×5
Mana 1,000.000
Arcane 1,000.000
Stamina 2,000.010
Health 1,526.500
Base multiplier ×5
Strength 100,101
Agility 100,000
Intelligence 100,000
Wisdom 100.000
Perception 100.000
Integrity 152.650
Lost servants
Race lost servant
Name Franky Viss
Level 10
Grade F
Race lost servant
Name Albert
Level 7
Grade F
Race lost servant
Name Elizabeth Bay
Level 17
Grade F
Race lost servant
Name Harald Mar
Level 9
Grade F
Notification. Lost servants can not exceed the summoned grade level