Chapter 803 - Not that bad of a run
I know I do it sometimes. When I am around the others from the group during danger, I hesitate and become less confident in myself. Or at least more careful.
I hate these emotions, but at the same time, they are precious to me.
The more I gain, the more afraid I become of losing it all.
I’m sure it will repeat in the future, but for now, I suppress the version of myself who, ever since I returned to the 10th floor, became somewhat careful. I allow a part of me to surface that laughs at these thoughts. Even though, in the end, even that is a part of what makes me me.
I swing my arm, and my vessel behind my back mirrors the motion. A wave of raw mana crashes against the hatchling before it can channel another orb of white lightning. The black halo over the vessel’s head expands in size, and the mana inside of it begins to spin wildly to pull in more mana in the area. All of my scattered mana, all the ambient mana agitated by the nearby Champions, and the mana from group 4.
Then I crash against the hatchling, fighting it for its own mana as well. The tiny hatchling with its cold eyes observes what I do, mimicking me and improving at an incredible pace. Its mana reserves aren’t as big as mine, but it pulls on the ambient mana from the moment it was born to bend it to its will.
It is like drawing in ambient mana is something laughably easy for it. A lesser resource that is child’s play to control. So impure and weak in comparison to the lightning. That tiny body, the bloodline, and whatever mutations and capabilities of that mind allow for that.
But I won’t lose.
I take a step ahead, my vessel turning pitch black. Two golden rings glow where the eyes should be, and pale blue lines mirror on it where many of my scars are. With the body I have, I won’t lose.
Mana bends to my will and flows through my vessel. My mind channels it, and the vessel carries all effects of my traits and passives. The hatchling tries to fight me for it, but it fails.
I steal its mana as well, constantly launching attacks at it that each contain more mana than an average Hell difficulty attendee would possess. These attacks send ripples through the sea surrounding us, causing geysers of water to explode into the air.
Then the little creature looks at my black mana vessel and opens its wings wide. For a moment, its mana pull resists mine. It almost looks like the mana allows it to happen. As if it accepts the hatchling's control over it lovingly. An orb forms in front of it and begins to compress. Tricolored, bright white, back to blue, then to one with a white and golden core. It continuously shifts and channels it all, switching between all levels of compression with such ease that it astounds me.
But it fails every time. No matter how hard it tries, that mana doesn't compress to the point of becoming black.
Those eyes turn even colder and a dozen projectiles, almost fully mimicking Empyrean Lances, form all around it.
A pulse of my black mana shoots ahead, and the area loses most of its colors. Before the projectiles can even launch, they all break into shiny white and golden particles that swirl in the air, spinning and swimming in the currents toward my vessel that takes them all.
When it comes to mana, I don’t think my body and mind lose that much to this thing.
[Focus - lvl 78 > Focus - lvl 79]
Signatures of the group around me fade and become just a source of information as my mind estimates how much of the attacks and the pressure the hatchling generates I should block and how much they can deal with.
I find myself capable of focusing on attacking the hatchling quite a bit, only sometimes jumping in to help out the others. I filter the mana my black mana devours to allow them to use their own, and their primordial energies and fragments continue to bombard the hatchling.
Stones are torn from the island and launched high up to fall down like meteors. The flames burst forth, as well as the primordial lightning. Somewhere Sophie enters thought acceleration and, within that space, prepares an attack she launches in combination with the twins.
Maya, in her armor, after attacking, moves aside just as Blackie charges in. In a way, he is similar to this hatchling, quickly improving and now let off the leash, he controls the body of the dead champion much better.
Meanwhile, Biscuit is on the back of the island sniffing the air coming from the west, and amounts of primordial energy I haven't sensed from him before begin to gather as he is preparing for something.
My surge of kinetic energy ripples through the air as I throw it at Blackie, but it rebounds toward me, instantly far more powerful. I grab it and fling it back again, only for the same thing to happen, the force building much higher with each exchange. And as always, I simply channel it.
I narrow it to a needle point, then compress it further until it is as thick as my wrist. It tears toward the hatchling with a sound like the sky itself is crying out. The sheer friction of so much energy moving at that speed makes it generate heat, as if the air is on the verge of igniting.
It almost matches the speed of the railgun attack Tess launches from her ring. Both of these attacks hit one after another, Tess’s making a hole and mine breaking the barrier and barely missing the hatchling. No, rather than missing, it seems like the space around the creature twists and makes it miss.
The hatchling screams again and flies to the side as Blackie reaches it, shooting white lightning at the dead demon in an attack that throws Blackie away, and every time his body bounces on the ground, more kinetic energy shoots from him.
As with the shout before, there is that feeling like an entire planet shakes, as if we stand on a gigantic glacier that cracks deep under our feet. That feeling continues to become more and more prominent, like it’s about to open and either swallow us or worse, release something that was never meant to wake.
My black mana turns into multiple orbs that float around me, each shooting ahead and stretching into the shape of a barrier segment to block lightning attacks the hatchling continues to shoot. It starts slowly, with one attack every second, but then it begins to speed up. It becomes two lightning attacks per second. Then five. Then ten. The hatchling’s lightning rains down at us at high speed while I channel, concentrate, and move my mana at the same matching speed. Just a slight miscalculation, and that lightning would pass through, killing someone on the ground.
That fact only makes my mind calmer, and the hatchling doesn't even get to pull on any of the mana in the area. Any mana of its own gets disrupted the moment it leaves the body.
All of it is mine.
[Eclipse - lvl 69 > Eclipse - lvl 70]
[Current - lvl 45 > Current - lvl 46]
[Current - lvl 46 > Current - lvl 47]
Just as Blackie crashes against it, the hatchling calls again. The voice spreads much wider, and the tremors instantly become more powerful.
Then the entirety of the sky changes color from blue to white, while the clouds instead turn a dark blue. Everything becomes painfully clear in that lighting.
Both of my eyes sizzle in their sockets under the overwhelming amount of information, making me realize that the entirety of the sky is an array, a domain, or something far greater. Something that now surrounds the entire planet.
I use multiple healing marks from Lily, restoring my eyes as I put the glasses back on, just to watch the hatchling under Blackie. He continues to slam at it even as bursts of reflected kinetic energy surround both of them. In one of these, Maya and Aaron are thrown through the sand and boulders of this island.
From the side, Noodle sneaks and shoots ahead, biting into the hatchling and, unlike Blackie, actually piercing the scales. But immediately, he pulls back, jaw wide open, and his body twisting and swirling in pain and spasms. Another kinetic reflection throws him away, where Lily rushes to his side.
Everything turns into a series of explosions, and I use it to channel more mana, preparing projectiles and fighting for mana more actively now that my [Eclipse] is gone.
Then the Weredeer appears.
Out of nowhere, it is here, bipedal, constantly bleeding, and standing on the calm sea under the white sky and blue clouds. Even the hatchling and Blackie go still. Everyone stands frozen in terror, unable to move.
In the face of how crazy this situation is, I find myself able just to exhale and smile. It wasn't that bad of a run, I think, as I sweep my gaze over the place and people around me.
Then I take a step, and only I move through that pressure. My vessel moves closer, putting its hands on my shoulders, and the black halo expands even further. My Empyrean Blood circulates much faster as I force it to, and that movement of such pure mana strengthens that field even further, allowing me to grasp mana inside of my body.
The Weredeer turns away from the hatchling to me.
The sky becomes even purer white, and somewhere on a distant part of the planet, a roar similar to the hatchling's sounds.
A hint of recognition flashes in the eyes of the Weredeer as it looks at me, and it lifts its clawed arm and swings in an attack that tears rifts into space itself with those claws.
***
I find myself somewhere entirely else. A small patch of forest. Grass on a small, gently sloped hill with a tree on the top and a few more trees around on the continuing patch of grass. Everything else beyond that and around that is a neverending white space with no clear walls or ceiling or floor.
I sit there, my back resting against the tree with Biscuit on my lap. He looks just as I remember him from the first floor. When I think of it, isn't the forest the same as well? It makes me remember exactly this moment, one of those quiet ones where I found time to get away from everything, together with this wallet stealing corgi.
Automatically, I reach down and pet Biscuit’s head, enjoying the feeling of his fur under my hand.
"I guess we aren't dead and this isn't the afterlife, right?" I ask gently.
(Not dead.) The corgi lifts his head, and behind his eyes, I see his primordial energy more clearly than ever before.
"Biscuit, did you copy my lame Thought Acceleration attempts and create this?"
(Can do. Bond.)
"I see."
Even with what is happening outside, I don't panic and instead trust this corgi. But there is that faint tension in my chest that makes it harder to breathe. From his feelings, I begin to understand.
I allow myself a few seconds of silence.
(Will help,) He says.
"You know you don't have to."
(Want.)
"There is no way there won't be consequences."
(Doesn't matter.)
I open my mouth to say something against that, but I can't find anything to say. Instead, I reach down and pull him closer against my chest, putting my arms around him for a long moment where he doesn't move at all and just lets me.
After that moment, he turns around and boops my nose with his front paw. I don't recognize my voice as I say, almost begging, "Don't die. Don't leave me."
(Won't die. Will find again. Friend again... Nathaniel.)
Someone sobs, and then the thought acceleration disappears.
Out of nowhere, Biscuit stands in front of me, facing the Weredeer with his primordial energy blazing powerfully as never before.
It devours the Weredeer's attack.
It devours the space in front of the Weredeer, causing it to disappear somewhere far away.
It devours our bond, cutting it off entirely.
It devours a hole into the structure of the tutorial itself.
And Biscuit disappears.
Comments (213)
Wait…so those bonus chapters from two years ago the alternate universe biscuit and scp biscuit wasn’t far off? 😨
After the biscuit plushies? No way he writes him off and there is higher attachement to the doggo. Mc developement. Later the corgi will be back maybe as a ruler or an absolute of a different planet?
uhh….. what?
Bunch of idiots always asking for more deaths and now the bestest pup of all is taking a hit. You should feel ashamed.
People asked for this? I can't believe it!! But Biscuit isn't dead. He can't be
NOOOOOOOOOO DONT YOU DARE BISCUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHS
I cry too often..... please. I beg you.
On a lighter tone Nat playing kinetic yoyo with Blackie was fun.
Oof
Pretty much how I feel too smh 😒 greatest doggo ever. Hes a real one for that.
I don’t really comment like ever but just wanted to say, “love the story, ignore the weird comments, looking forward to seeing where things go”
Yes all of these are good points but you’re ignoring that most of these are just mistakes they made without knowing they were making them plus there’s additional convos / ppl around them supporting that this whole scenario is far outside the norm and might even be the first time it’s ever happened in the tutorial
If you didn't know this was coming and weren't dying in anticipation for it, we weren't reading the same story... or maybe... our reading comprehension skills vary greatly..lol.🤣
again... holy fkn sht!
bruh, why you all have such a one dimensional powerscaling in your mind , ability to delete space is OP but it’s literally written that he deleted SPACE not weredeer , why would you even start comparing his power to other characters. It’s like saying that some medusas on earth are the strongest creatures on earth because they are immortal , wtf everybody in this universe has a certain skillset and corgi was and remains to be a gimmicky sidekick with gimmicky powers that can devour space occasionally WITH POTENTIALLY SERIOUS FUCKING CONSEQUENCES TO LIFE TFTC cerim anyway P.S “oh no Sophie can mindfuck people and Nat cannot , so unfair, universe is ruined, totally unfair to Nat”
For those complaining: No one said Biscuit beat the Weredeer. He simply removed the deer from the tutorial (I believe based on the writing) along with himself. This doesn't mean Biscuit is stronger than Absolutes or anything, it simply means he had to pay a great cost to devour the space using his PE and some skill (I'm assuming probably in the 90's) to remove the deer. Aka, a one time use ability that Nat himself does often by circumventing the system. I would say it is likely Biscuit used a beyond token or something of the sort and devoured the space around the deer for just long enough to bring it with him. This isn't breaking the power scale HDT has been building, it's just another example of an attendee being able to abuse the system once.
I know I said before that I wouldn't comment until the next chapter, but after reading the comments, I just need to chime in one last time. There is a split between people saying Biscit broke the setting of the story and people saying no, it was foreshadowed every time someone met Biscit and was shocked. Even now, for me, it wasn't fully shown that other powerful beings mean Biscit is somehow stronger than a champion or absolute. It was just "wow, amazing bond" or a nod from Liss—not Biscit having level 80–90 skill levels or higher (I don't even know what his skills are) or somehow his PE being so OP it can damage the tutorial. But the most important part is that this kills the build-up to Nat becoming champion. Now every time Nat does something or fights near champion-level beings, I'll remember, "Oh cool, but Biscit is already 100 times stronger than Nat," and it's just a buzzkill because we didn't see how he became so strong. It just doesn't feel earned. That's my biggest problem: we didn't see any form of training, struggle, or suffering from Biscit, but we must accept that he is 100 times stronger than Nat, and it just leaves a bad feeling all around. When Nat gets to level 450 and becomes champion (maybe), there will still be this chapter that says, "Cool, good job… a dog was absolute already."
I agree, for me it was, the series of event that lead to this, were for the first time in the story in a long time, felt incredibly forced. I'm sure theirs gonna be a good plot around these events, but to have the exact items for this to have forced the corgis self sacrifice, it would have felt less forced if a ruler invaded their floor. Feels like a lot of out of character tendencies happened to lead to these events. 1. Weredeer A. dragged the corpse during a life and death situation at end of stage, meaning their is value. B. They left it like it had 0 value (depressed corgi didnt wanna eat, favorite food). The team that is known for taking items nailed down, would leave value on the floor. C. a being that is absolute+++ can interact with the tutorial (first time, without significant effort or alteration weve seen) (can assume they tuned down Lis, so she couldnt do that, but irrc there was no mention of the interaction with tutorial portals, the opposite.) D. Nat and crew decides to not isolate and deal with the hand/fingers, even though he could have trusted the squad to secure their own safety, while he transfers the hand/finger to beyond. 2. Baby wyvern A. bring a load of items from a trove from the absolute+++ guy. one of the items being the exact item needed to hatch a wyvern egg, which is convenient, since it was a experiment made by the elf. (makes sense if we see the elf recreates wyverns later in the series) B. Baby wyvern wakes up as top champion grade or low absolute. can 1v8 the squad while they full power. (im all for this plot, its super cool we get to see the power of wyverns/dragons) one of these story plots is more than enough, but to have 2 line up is where the lore/immersion of the story is strained. The whole chapter super devalues the power of the team, instead of placing wyverns as a higher power, than the team combined.
This just got personal. The rulers, the tutorial, the system, the weredeer, everything and everyone will pay.
I think people fail to realize, that Biscuit is the Greatest copy cat. He saw Lissandra break through the system and proceeds to do the same. He copied almost all of group 4 abilities in some shape or form. He is the ultimate glutton
Facts
🫓: *pft* "I'm not gon Die. Shoulda ate that damn deer the moment we got here!"
I don’t understand all this fuss about Biscuit’s strength. From the very beginning, he was presented as outside the power scaling the rest of the characters have to submit themselves to. The mystery that surrounds him is proof of that. Then we had hints like Lissandra acknowledging him, his disciple putting him on a pedestal, etc… Outside of the power scaling doesn’t mean that he’s stronger or weaker than the cast, it means his strength cant be measured by the same standard as the others. In some ways, he is much weaker than group four, and in other ways, he is much stronger. Furthermore, some people are saying Biscuit is too op without considering the context. Clearly, what he did to the weredeer cannot be explained just by saying “he dealt with an absolute just like that”. Let’s analyse the sequences piece by piece : 1) Biscuit never targeted the weredeer directly. Not once. He targeted the space before it, and I doubt he could control the tutorial’s response to that. 2) his primordial energy is unknown, but sufficiently dangerous to have people like Lissandra acknowledging it. 3) his primordial energy’s characteristics, powers, drawbacks and abilities have been intentionally not addressed throughout the story (to this point). All we have are theories. We know nothing. 4) Nat was worried. Not just “I’ll fight till my death” worried. Worried as in he was literally begging. And Nat knows biscuit’s strength and weaknesses better than anyone else. 5) Nat used the word “consequence” but we all know how he likes to downplay things, especially when said things are bad BAD. Conclusion : Biscuit is in a very, very, VERY bad shape. He has abilities that can let him confront beings multiple hundreds times stronger than he is, but it has immense drawbacks. The only comparaison I have is Megumi in JJK. He could end any fight anytime he wants it, but that kind of power has a cost.
Well said
I'm hoping he just ate his way out of the tutorial accidentally and will be waiting for everyone on earth? But then Adrian/cristoph is there too.
Biscuit could kill champions before adrian did. Think about the first dear and then the parasite. Adrian is the second most talented being born in the last 1000 years, a fucking absolute, and he's been planning his reincarnation for 100s of years, planning the best possible path to get even stronger, the best foundation, the best way to cheat the system, the best way to become the strongest. And yet, biscuit growth rate surpass him. Someone in this comment section said, biscuit was weaker then nat at floor 5 but started growing really fast then. Which makes it even more absurd. Nat was able to hang with adrian for 10-30s and even escape from him, while adrian was serious and exerting himself. Adrian wasn't using 0.1% of his power. Yet he'd be insta speed blitz stomped one shot, beyound space and reconsition insta killed by an absolute. === Then if we compare to nat, and what a talented dude having everything going for him, he's massively above him. (Again, nonsensical). I have entire long comments about that. And if we compare to pride and liss, he's got a feat comparable. Which is also, again, nonsensible. === Nat, adrian, and liss/pride. We can also add the Magi too. Who could barely fight against the system for a week, while using loopholes and being outside of it. Fighting thr system from inside the tutorial might be even harder. Like it's inside it's own base and domain. Nat < Adrian < Magi < Biscuit ~< Liss/Pride. Yeah. Fuck that.
Nah, even liss isn't that capable, sure she could kill the weredeer just as fast, but even she couldn't escape the tutorial, abd had to flee to beyond just to increase the chance of her not getting DELETED by the system and biscuits just like nah I can do whatever the hell I like... The only way I would accept it is if greed took control over biscuit like how kindness did to the demon, but yeah, of its not that powerscaling is just broken
Who is cutting onions in here?
I may have missed it, but who is Biscuit's Beyond handler?
He doesn’t have one, he’s technically not a beyond attendee in the first place. He was only able to go there through the bond with Nat
Nuts people didn't lose their mind when biscuit literally ate a champion but biscuit ribbing a whole in reality is the shark, he had to give his all to do it.
No, that was stupid too. And I was calling it. Also, there is such a thing as "Enough is Enough"
I rarely comment and rarely double post, but love the story and been here since the start. I see same comments I don't really understand where they are coming from with the opinion, just wanted to say love the story and your writing.
Nooooooooooooo
My thoughts exactly
😭
I came to say the same. Got me in the feels
I get the impression that people complaining about Biscut either poorly remembered scenes involving him in the rest of the novel, or even deliberately ignored them because they didn't like Biscut as a character. And now: is Biscut stronger than Nat? Yes. Is Biscut significantly stronger than Nat? Yes. Do we know exactly how strong he is? No, but if we follow his backstory, we can glean something from it. If we go back in time a bit, in the first story, Biscut was a charming mascot with an incredible talent for controlling mana (he was directly compared to Nat and was much better at it), but with negligible combat skills. Around the 4th floor and the first tournament, he reached a level comparable to the other members of Group 4, but was still below Nat's level and participated in activities with them quite actively, as seen in the first tournament. Floor 5, where Biscuit's apprentice is the grandson of Fenrir (one of the most fearsome beasts in history), who compares Biscuit to his grandfather. On Floor 6, he began to isolate himself from Group 4 and, with a single attack, killed the stag champion who had broken the seals and whom the rest of Group 4 were unable to kill themselves (thus demonstrating that he is undisputedly the most powerful member of Group 4). Then comes Floor 7, where Liss acknowledges Biscuit's superiority (when everyone else was training and Liss insulted them while giving them guidance, she decided Biscuit was training well enough not to need her guidance). Then Biscuit detected and devoured a special mimic that infected Tess. Now we come to the 9th floor, Fraudrian, and the latest ongoing issues. There's more than a little to it, and it's all in quick succession: the issue of his friends on the 9th floor, skipping the initial floors beyond and starting from the 4th floor, the direct suggestion that Biscuit can help control Nat's mana during a body upgrade similar to Fraudrian's, Fraudrian's successful evasion of recognition, attempts to telepathically converse with Biscuit resulting in mental overload, the repeated emphasis that Biscuit deliberately refrains from intervening to allow Nat to earn achievements independently, etc. Putting all this together, we can quite easily determine that Biscuit's minimum strength level ranks him as a champion.
But he’s gone rn which means no biscuit for a bit.
Loved the chapter and the progress! I'm looking forward to more details about what happened cuz I'm bewildered. Biscuit probably used all his primordial energy to devour a hole in space, which in turn devoured his connection to Nathaniel and the deer and its attack, maybe. The new envy needs to be killed after this.
Holy shit. Holy shit I can’t believe it. I don’t have anything to say, I’m just speechless. Where did he fucking go?!?? On another note, can we take a moment to appreciate how Gas this story is and has remained since day 1. Im have never been more certain that this is a generational run. Edit 1: also does anyone remember the ruler that Kindness woke up under all that snow? Seeing biscuits [Devour] reminds me of that interaction for some reason.
Ruler of wrath? The cinderbear? I don’t believe that he is biscuit’s beyond handler
Ppl been talking a lot about plot armor and i agree one of HDTs greatest points is the emphasis it puts on the sheer dedication and effort it takes to climb power levels and there’s no really cheap “fight one stage higher” moments but i think it’s clear in this scenario Biscuit sacrificed something pretty significant to be able to pull this off, on top of the fact that it’s been emphasized he’s trained on his own it’s just not seen. For now I’d say trust in the author we all know and love and I’m pretty sure cerim has a reason for throwing this, not just out of random plot device. Ultimately it’s his story and he definetly has a plan (unless he’s in third floor Nat mindset). He’s probably laughing at ragebaiting us right now in fact
Anyone that complains about plot armor is honestly just kinda brain dead. Stories are told from the point of view of the victor. Period. If the MC dies.. there would be no story. What would be the point?
Youre really good at this cerim. Really really good.
I love Biscuit. I really do. But this is where Hell Difficulty Tutorial officially jumped the shark for me. The problem isn’t that the corgi got strong. It’s that his power-up collapses the hierarchy the series spent hundreds of chapters building. Early HDT drilled one thing into us: tiers are qualitative. An Absolute isn’t just a bigger stat block, but it’s a categorical shift in authority. Advancement isn’t scaling. It’s transformation. Now look at the chain of events: The Weredeer defeats an Absolute that eventually becomes a ruler. Biscuit neutralizes the Weredeer via devour. Biscuit devours the structure of the tutorial. That means Biscuit is peak Absolute or something between a ruler and Absolute That’s breaks the structural math. If Biscuit can beat something that beat an Absolute, the ladder stops being vertical. It becomes situational. And once tiers are situational, the fear evaporates. The “Hell” in the title loses its teeth because the floor can now punch the ceiling. And this isn’t isolated. The Adrian device already hinted at rule elasticity. Biscuit just makes it undeniable. When power can spike through convenient consumption events instead of earned ascension, the implicit contract changes. Progression no longer guarantees cost. I’m here for the corgi. I’m not here for the corgi quietly invalidating every brutal, incremental step Nathaniel had to take to climb those same tiers.
Liss killed a ruler as not even a champion in her current body and it was fine, Biscuit banishes a brand new absolute after 800 chapters of 'biscuit is OP' and suddenly the heirarchy is destroyed??
That will teach me to read at work in a dusty room…
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet - they might have completed the first re-write of the objective with biscuit removing the weredeer, so with the ruler fuckery, they might just have to jump through some portals and avoid the fight with near champion baby wyvern and what is probably an absolute level wyvern mother on the way. They don’t really have anything left to deal with beings that strong so escape is the better option
the wyvern mother has to be ruler lever or higher if the power scale starts a baby wyvern a mid to peak champion
Ruby should have trusted Group 4 to kill the Weredeer Food and not mess with Lust's quest
So did he just consume the attack and the Weredeer ran off? Disappearing far away when he can just come back in an instant doesnt make sense unless I am misunderstanding this.
He devoured space around the weredeer, somehow banishing it to somewhere/maybe even out of the tutorial so egoe
Beautiful writing
Biscuit will appear again when they need him most; probably some time during the pairing. Bet he will end up being the absolute.
Why are you guys complaining about Biscuits capabilities? There was so much fucking foreshadowing to this
Also just not clear what he did. Even the A rank attendee had no problem just teleporting Nat since he specialized in it. Biscuits PE is probably something similar - hyper specialization in one direction to ignore rules at the risk of greater consequences
Biscuit!
Biscuit no
Story is fantastic and hits the right notes, Cerim is rocking it!!
Cerims fucking amazing writing has made me feel like an incompetent writer!!! Your imagination to always take it a step deeper is impressive!
Im guessing a pocket realm related to his PE. Like jjk. I think we dont understand the PE at all. We know its related to consumption. We dont know anything about biscuits training or skills. Its probably one of those special things thats always trying to consume him and so he has to constantly get better at controlling it or die. Like that one chicks blood.
Just to clarify for myself, PE is primordial energy?
Dang cerim woke up and chose violence with the cliff hangers and now biscuit this week :(
Thank you for the chappie! BISCUIT NOOOOOO
Setting aside the Waredeer, did Biscuit just exit the tutorial?
My guess is somewhere "deeper" in the tutorial, whether in Beyond or in some sort of bulk between the Beyond and Tutorial.
Just a few observations: 1. Biscuit was prepared for the weredeer and probably ran to be in front of Nat the moment it appeared. 2. It was explicitly stated that the thought acceleration thing is a result of their bond. Not to mention, Biscuit can communicate so much information that it is one of his attacks, and Nat definitely accepts all messages from Biscuit no questions asked. 3. Noodle managed to hold on to the wyvern egg for hours in addition to a lot of high rarity items. Biscuit who is unequivocally superior applying his top-tier skills with prep time and total disregard for the consequences can manage a split second against the weredeer. 4. The weredeer is still a champion. A max level champion with the mind of a top-tier absolute/future ruler, but a champion nonetheless (the remaining champions are fighting over the title, so it hasn't been claimed yet). And though it seemed effortless, I doubt that they aren't at least disoriented from the future ruler of lust. Not to mention, he is a bleeding and heavily wounded reanimated dusk deer that has been empowered by only 4 fingers. 5. Due to the mention of consequences and them being sent away, it is likely that Biscuit used the system in some way. This isn't impossible because we know that Biscuit's PE is extraordinarily rare, and so is the situation he's found himself in and the way he is resolving it. It is something that the system probably never dealt with before, and therefore wasn't banned. It took the sand from the 6th floor killing a whole bunch of attendees for it to be forbidden from beyond. 6. The way that banishment was worded, there are still a lot of things left unclear. What does it mean that the weredeer was sent somewhere far away BEFORE Biscuit disappeared? Why did he devour the bond? If he left to beyond, why does it sound like he is going to be gone for a long time? There is so much that we don't know. Cerim is probably going to enlighten us on at least a few of these things tomorrow, so have faith in his writing and world building. Everything is probably going make much more sense tomorrow. (Edited to space things out and mention weredeer injuries)
"RAGGY I MUST" BUT LIKE, SCOOB, IF YOU DO IT, YOU MIGHT..... "I KNOW RAGGY, I WILL RETURN...... SCOOBY SNACK?" Yeah Scoob, I wont let anyone eat them "Rank you Raggy, SCOOOOOOOOBY DOOOOOOBY DOOOOOO! *Scooby beings to eat space time and layers of reality*
Awesome chapter. Did not see that coming. Let’s go biscuit! Biscuit saves the day!
I feel the Ruler chat's going to go *ping* *ping* *ping* wild.
Who's excited about Wickthaniel popping off tomorrow, huh?!
I can see it now. Group 4 training camp, pissed off self productive Nate planning revenge on rulers. Bro is locked, hopefully, in.
My last comment for this chapter. We’ll see how the next one will be. People are defending Biscuit, saying that there are consequences, but we don’t know how severe they will be if there will be any at all. And again: if Cerim can write that the corgi can stop an absolute attack and damage part of the tutorial, then what’s stopping him from, I don’t know, writing that Tess or Sophie can stop absolute attacks but with some consequences? That’s why this chapter feels wrong. It was supposed to be about Biscuit’s sacrifice and how it affects Group 4 and Nat, but now it’s become “Wait, the best absolute meme wasn’t a meme” and it completely ruins the moment.
It's chapter 800 and we've been told repeatedly and shown repeatedly that Biscuit is next level. He ate a champion floors ago when Nat still could barely handle a sealed champion heart. Did you not pay any attention to the story? Tess and Sophie have not had literally 3 years of foreshadowing
All I'm going to say, is that if you're genuinely upset about how powerful Biscuit's PE is, you might not have been paying attention to the story in the way that you think you have been. Especially when it comes to the duality of his PE. It is incredibly rare and his mastery of it is broken, but the cost to drawing on it too much is also repeatedly acknowledged. This further emphasizes the significance of his actions in this moment. Also, what's tearing a hole in space really worth these days? Even Noble Ladies' pets have better control than that. Wake up, sheople!!!
Not sure why people saying Biscuit is too OP, like he literally ate a champion on the 6th floor, he ate something that could take over a champion on the 7th,he is the only one while training that Lissandra the perfectionnist monster approved of, his minion was as strong as nat at the time he summoned him, put some respect on the best doggo of the 10th floor & his sacrifice for his friends (and no I'm not crying 😭)
Biscuit minion is ABSOLUTELY NOT on nats level what are ypu ok about??? He lost to one of the other group 4 minions ( o Sophie's I think ), he ate a near dead champaion with no muscles left only a bare skeleton + weakened a lot ( nat could take the mana champion 1v1 probably ), and the entire point of the thing from floor 7 was that it was weak so it couldn't be detected??? That was like the whole premise of that thing, now from there to EAT THE FUCKING TUTORIAL FABRIC??? A thing that liss had to sacrifice herself and still couldn't do completely?, a thing THE MAGI, the best mana manipulator outside the system, said he couldn't do for nat for more than a week maybe two?
Jeeze reading comprehension curse strikes the HDT fandom with all these people saying that Buscuit ate the Weredeer when it so clearly says the space infront of the Weredeer was devoured not the deer itself 😭
Bro just leave them to fume it’s funny. They missed out on a lot already. 😂
BISCUIT!!!!
Biscuit is going to become a were dog probably.
Dude you might be on to something.
So tomorrow Nat has to face the baby Wyvern and possibly its mother too! That hour better be ticking down because if the baby is that powerful group 4 doesn’t stand a chance against its mom.
Even Lissy couldn't break tutorial, and some random Corgi does that after 3 years of tutorial on a whim? Honestly this was ultra level of a plot armor and feels like pure asspull out of nowhere It was such a perfect opportunity to show that there is stakes in the story and Nat can be punished for his stupid ideas for once, but naah deus ex machina known as Biscuit exist..Wonder why he didn't just ate Pride and called it a day
To be fair the only stupid idea they had leading to this particular scenario was going to see the lycan, everything else was not even close to something they could reasonably predict, they have no idea how any of the interactions that lead to this even work and frankly the fact that the deer is absolute tier is a bigger wtf than this happening because how the hell?. Other than that tho the only actual mistake after that point was leaving the scales next to the egg, and that can't technically be assigned to Nat since that technically wasn't his duty or job in this situation.
NO MORE BOOPS ? WTF ?
Biscuit ❤️...
He rarely writes comments, but this time I have to. I don't know what to think about this chapter. I have ambivalent feelings, I'll see how it ends, so far I'm a bit disappointed
First of all. No! How dare you threaten Biscuit! Second, it is BS if Biscuit just straight ate the weardeer. For him to do anything stresses the lore to the breaking point.
It literally says "It devours the space INFRONT of the weredeer, causing it to DISSAPEAR SOMEWHERE far away". Also it would break lore at all, matchups matter and if biscuit is using a boost or suicide attack with much higher output it wouldnt be strange for him to manage something like this.
They didn't even try to fight it in their despair ? Come on.
It one shot an absolute. There is no fighting this thing when Nat cant solo a champion yet.
My problem or this feeling is that the story spends so much time hammering home how massive the gap is between "normal" high-level people and Champions/Absolutes (Christopher's fast climb to candidate-level in ~3–4 years is already treated as freakish talent + Hell difficulty cheese), yet Biscuit starts casually no-selling or countering things that should require that tier of power. If Biscuit can just break absolute attacks or outscale Adrian in certain moments, it does make you go "wait, then why couldn't Christopher one-shot a Champion or something?" It risks making the power ladder feel inconsistent or arbitrary.
People really need to understand that while Biscuit is obviously very powerful, whatever he did he was not normal for him. It wasn't something he could casually do because he's just that busted and overpowered and can easily break the setting just because it's funny for a little dog to stunt all over things. Whatever he did here, was some kind of sacrificial, over-clocking, only at last resort, type of action. We don't know the exact details, but I assume it's the thematic equivalent of Lily doing something absolutely bonkers by sacrificing half her memories and remaining lifespan. A massive power-up that is technically possible, but only at severe cost and consequences.
Thank you!
I know he's going to show up in like 100 chapters riding on the head of a galaxy sized wolf or something, but how dare you. Monster.
I swear if anything bad happens to biscuit I will drop this Novel and hate review it until my fingers fall off.
This chapter hit the emotional notes perfectly, but I’m in line with everyone else who said it was an absurd feat and not in keeping with any of the story lore we’ve seen to this point. I’m finding myself mostly feeling annoyed rather than sad or shocked as a result
800 chapters of constant "biscuit is insanely talented" both straight up told to us and shown to us over and over, and you say this doesn't fit? Bisctuit didn't even one shot the absolute, he just moved it elsewhere. What's crazy here?
These is obviously a ploy to sell more biscuit plushies, if not enough are bought cerium will permanently kill off biscuit.
I wonder which is it... A/ Biscuit teleported weredeer to beyond, and thus the rulers killed it to respect the rules of beyond... B/ Biscuit teleported to REAL world and system fuckery destroyed the weredeer, C/ he ate the weredeer and the space around it.. And intentionally or not ate himself it aswell... How he returns is weird... First I thought a vague sense of the bond remains and he will respawn through Nat like Lissandra did through Hadrian. But if the bond is broken ... I have no idea... Maybe he believes he gets saved by the Rulers ? I am sadly unable to anticipate Cerims next step... But I am fairly sure he will return with either everything Nat has seen and experienced or as a baby bornanew... Maybe timestop like in BATE
Biscuit deserves better!
Noooooooooooooooo
Bah, good riddance to him! Now Zoidberg will be the popular one!
Damn, this is a twist
All the biscuit comments lol. I don’t think biscuit is more op than Nat. The what if Biscuit story kinda explains biscuits primordial energy as a skill devour. It is a op skill that grows on a different scale. That said I think Biscuit does something to space and not the deer possibly removing both from tutorial
I must say I really don't know how to feel, the thing that made me like the series so much was the fact that he got powerscaling nailed down very good, which is so rare to do good, when I say champion you know what to expect, same with absolute, same with level 380 vs 300 vs 250 I love the biscuit is absolute joke and I love biscuit, but this is absurd! THE MAGI said he can cut the connection for a week or two at most and he is the most talented mana user there is, fucking liss had to flee from the tutorial grasp and take the hearts of attendees to escape And you want to tell me the system aint gonna drag his cute dog ass back to the tutorial? And all of this BEFORE we even begin to talk about the fact that he devoured an ABSOLUTE LEVEL attack which at best breaks every major fight to this point and at worst just breaks powerscaling as a whole I just really don't know of cerim thought about the consequences all the way through on this one, bit saying it was not an epic chapter, but i feel this will be one of the most controversial ones for the time being
While I agree to some extent, remember that skill levels are even more important that the levels. Iirc Lyss killed absolutes on 8th floor being much lower level than them. There are most likely more than one reason, but i think the most important one is the skill levels. What if Biscut has a rly high lvl skill and a primordial energy that combines well with it? He ate a champion few floors before. Maybe now he can eat even the weredeer. Plus the weredeer isn't rly alive some he might be more prone to being teleported and stuff like that bcs he isn't actively fighting against it.
Can someo e expain to me again, why absolutes are stronger than Champions? Seems like the only thing a champion needs to do, is bound with a planet. so maybe this gives a boost, but it feels illogical to have morelevels or better skills because of this...
I 'think' when absolute starts he is just a very strong champion ( the strongest of that planet ) but after he becomes an absolute and initiates pairings he absorbs the sparks of the plantes he defeated, the more pairing he survives, the stronger him and the planet are + the levels, probably fragments etc of the planets he conquered, and while maybe not absorbing every fragment to himself, they have a very high value and can probably commission high pristine ( or higher levels if they exist ) items
Biscuit sacrificed to cast a high level CounterBanish spell
IMO he sacrificed the bond, as it had more value than himself.
The 22 more hours til the next chapter are going to be hell
Not the best doggo of the tutorial.... [Gone] Don't do this to us :'(
this is lilys chance to get nat!
What are you talking about ?!
Hold up! Isnt Liss on a Beyond Floor with a Wyvern theme? Our bestest Doggo can leave a mark on Nat like Liss did.. What if he devoured some sort of tunnel to Beyond and brought him and the Weredeer to Liss?
Or, Biscuit is in the Real World and Liss should have stayed with him if she wanted out !
NOT BISCUIT!!!!!!!
Am I reading this wrong, or does Biscuit devour the space in front of the deer, not the deer ?
Basically teleports it away by deleting the space around it
TFTC. Oh f*ck!! Biscuit?!
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK AND WHY DO I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS
Wonder tho how many Rulers will fall after Nat reach Master of Pride
Cerim I'll kill you jf you kill biscuit
What the actual???!!!
The series builds up this really strict, almost "untouchable" power hierarchy for Champions (and even higher tiers like Absolutes or Rulers), where even top-tier people like Nat's group, Christopher (the ex-Absolute who climbed insanely fast in ~3–4 years), or others get bodied or humbled when facing them. Then suddenly Biscuit (the corgi) starts pulling off stuff that feels like it breaks that scaling, especially when it comes to "absolute attacks" or just casually being OP in ways that seem to outpace Adrian or even some Champion-level threats.
Sure... You are kinda right but remember Biscuit did this with severe consequences... He might even go through a phoenix reincarnation through Nats bond similarly to how other series handled deaths of bonds... Also he didn't kill it... He teleported it away using esoteric ways... That shouldn't break the power ceiling as it totally acceptable that the weredeer isn't ready for something like that... Also Biscuit disciple already has told us that Biscuits type of primordial and other powers are so unqiue that she doesn't even have those only her grandfather or something.... That should be an insane indication that through all of the system domain Biscuit wasn't able to get a disciple with matching powers ... Because its so fucking rare. What I think happened is that Biscuit tore a hole in the tutorial to either Beyond OR the real world and Adrian has to kill the weredeer... Or if he is lucky it dies to system fuckery as its unable to leave the tutorial as it hasn't gone through the stenous process of becoming an Atendee like Liss has.... Also its super funny that Liss could have escaped using Biscuit ...
What if Biscuit devoured space until reaching LissLIss on The 12th Beyond Floor?
My thoughts is that He left the tutorial to the real world ... And either Adrian needs to kill the weredeer or the weredeer ceases to exist as it hasn't gone through the neasarry steps to not be deleted by the tutorial.
People in the comments going crazy over biscuit. But what I want to know is? did nat lose the ability to do black mana now, because biscuit devoured their bond.
Why would he lose his ability to do black mana I don’t think nat being able to create black mana is related to his bond with biscuit ?
So this is why you dropped the Biscuit plush
We should’ve seen this coming, because there’s no way a deer is going to appear before biscuit and not get eaten😂😂
Guys I have theory, system tutorial was built with the base of beyond - so may be biscuit will be transported to one of the lower floors of beyond like floor 7 or 8 of beyond. Then when nat explores those floors best doggo of beyond will be there to meet him
I'm interested to see how it plays out in terms of Nat's character. Biscuit is a representation of his kindness and trust; in a real way Biscuit is his first friend among Group 4. I can imagine Nat turning more savage, or keeping his kindness in memory of Biscuit... Obviously, Biscuit himself will return a la Gandalf the White.
Scone the Wise?
Asshole!
Noo not the best boy
I don’t understand where Biscuits strength come from, memes about it are really fun but that seems really out of context
It’s his primordial energy. Whatever it is has the conceptual quality of devouring, so regardless of his personal power level, it’s really good at consuming constructs, like the tutorial or his and Nat’s bond. I’m sure this would not translate to offensive measures against a being much stronger than him, and that it was at a great cost to him, similar to devouring the deer on the Mimic floor.
God damn you Cerim. Damn you straight to hell difficulty. I do like the subtle touch of “someone sobs” very much like Nat to say that.
Did Biscuit just cut the Bond with Nathaniel so he can Bond with the stupid Wyvern Baby? That's replacing a Bond with an Absolute with a Bond with a whiney whimpering glutton.
Bro no its distancce and as i understand cori finish his learning leason.
Man was in the office when he was reading this. I almost cried, don't do that to Biscuit Cerim.
A certain side story ( the Biscuit that never was ) comes to mind. Thank you!
┻━┻︵ \(°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻
The Ruler of Ruler has deemed this Weredeer Food and has eaten the quest reward, with the floor quest no longer viable a new floor quest has been issued, survive for one minute.
Food food
Nom
Well **** (((
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Noooooooooo
Idk how I feel about this. I never liked biscuit. Mainly because what was a joke in the earlier book (not even a funny one most of the time) just got glazed and memed too much by the fans, and cerim let himself be caught by the flow. If he is ( and was all along) that op and much stronger then nat, it would retcon pretty much every event from book 1-5. And remove tension on top of a slew of other problems. Recently, we started to have biscuit feats, but... they were too nonsensical and it was too late. Too late being the main thing. So I know he's really strong, when he ate the champion dear, when he ate the parasite (hopefully it wasn't the absolute parasite. I don't remember. I think not. ). Even then, affecting the tutorial is ridiculous. It seems he'll be send to space somewhere, fighting the dear, but again, surviving that too is ridiculous. It really is just a joke of "Mister Bean can beat superman" that then started being treated seriously 6+ books in. === The same problem with Luna and Lecita. Pet jokes were made serious, but then just completely forgotten about. They were introduced to be so much better then nat, and people thought: Wow, their mana manip must be level 70-80 ~72-73, while nat was barely 55. And they got left in the fucking dust. And then never proceeded to show any feat or being consistent with what their introduction accounted for. And the thing is, whatever level of strength biscuit has right now, I can tell you, once nat and other major character reach that level, they will be nowhere near doing stuff like fucking arround with the tutorial. Even if his PE has a compatibility boost. === At the end of the day, the pet joke just became mary sues. People in the comment are saying, wow, ruler level feat. Fucking nonsensical. Rulers are talented as fuck. And they are like 1000s of years old. Biscuit has 3 years of experience. You don't get more mary sue then that. Everyone likes him. If you don't, you are secretly a bad guy, he's secretly the best and coolest. And again, we have never seen biscuit actually do insane training nor be taught by really powerful being, nor push himself to the point of bleeding from his brain and having all his bones grounded to dust. Even if he has had some moments recently, again, thats like 5 or 6 books of biscuit doing fuckall, and then by book 7, poof, he's mary sue. === And no, I won't use gary stue. A gary stue at least puts a ton of visible effort ajd other shit to get there.
Yup ur right. Cerim needs to explain that how is biscuit so powerful.
NOOOOOOOO BISCUIT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thanks for the chapter!
crying... biscuit...
Crrrazy
Ahhh, that sucks. Im sure gonna miss him. Best doggo ever!
Well shit I wasn't expecting that :(
I suppose that selling of plushie Biscuits will rise even more. 😉👍😂
Biscuit 😱😱😱😱😱
Noooooooooo!!!!! Cerim do not dare have any thing bad happen to the fluffball!!!
Thank you for the small mercy of not timing this chapter for the end of the week. Biscuit will be missed. The rest of Group 4 will have to stop slacking now that they don't have their future Absolute to rely on.
:(
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Im fucking crying dude
Broooo
Loaf of bread will be missed😭😭, he can have all the deer he wants when he gets back!!
Well looks like Gluttony may want to consider a new job as even the Absolutes that we've seen don't seem to be able to randomly tear holes in the tutorial. That's Ruler level power(or at least absolute's who are their equivalent)
Hmm, I mean we only saw nerfed in-tutorial absolute replicas in the tutorial, not real ones, and the one time we did with lissandra she literally did do that with zero effort.
Also?? "a roar similar to the hatchling's sounds." Are litterally both of the things I said last chapter going to come true??
Biscuit... Mans only true best friend. This was always how it was going to be.
No how coud you O.O ???
I really wonder what the official name for that primordial energy is.
Sustenance.
DONT YOU DARE CERIM!
Biscuit the gosh damn hero
Cerim you are ngmi. I don't know if I should hate you or love you for creating this masterpiece.
Oh a new chapters out!? Yay! Lemme jus- oh... oh thats my 2nd favourite character leaving the story for an indeterminate amount of time
HOLY FUCK WHAT A CHAPTER
Noooooo
OH NO BISCUITTTT!!😭
WTF happened here? BISCUUUITTTT!! .. is it thursday today?
Tuesday....2 more chapters this week. But God is this brutal, I don't want a cliff
Little fella finally got a floor ten tutorial treat, definitely wasn't expecting him to eat the floor though.
Tftc did the hachling create the aray that's as big as the sky?
Nah, it's probably just a planet-sized dragon mama
D:
Envy, I really hope you try to mess with Liss as soon as possible.
😧
Fuck man. I'm crying here. Not Biscuit!!!
Biscuit: I am, and forever will be, your friend 🥲
On a more serious note, did Biscuit just eject that monstrosity and himself from the tutorial? That is not good
Aw man
A horror beyond imagination
Biscuit! Nooooooo!
I’m currently cursing anyone who wanted a member of group four to die. Curse you. Happy now ? You have what you wanted. Curse. You.
Biscuit isn't dead. I feel like that was made pretty clear. The consequence is that biscuit is now alone somewhere outside the tutorial.
I swear of biscuit isn’t okay I will kill everyone in this room and then myself
Twice!
NOOOOO BISCUIT MY FUTURE ABSOLUTE
Ruler of Ruler
See now I’m traumatized
:O
Wtf biscuit
Food
Woah.
YAY
NOT YAY
TFTC!!!