second youngest*

he is at least the second or middle of the pack, but given Tessa and lotus are said to be childhood friends I'm pretty sure the only one competing for youngest with karl is Dana. we know Tessa was noted as having plenty of experience on missions when Karl and Dana were on their way home from their first and "Bear" is literally a senior so neither of them are even in the running for youngest.

actually yes you can make a sound similar to a clap with only one hand (and no you don't smack it against another part of your body nor is it the sign language variant of clapping. you just open your hand then with a quick motion slap your four fingers into your palm)

yeah its 254

chapter 254 comes before this one

2 things. 1 if you actually read my first comment you'd know that as of the time it became relevant he is ascended meaning he'd need to kill a dormant devil, tyrant, terror, or titan to get a single fragment and anything lesser would get him nothing. so whith that in mind lets recount all the known dormant devils or higher in the book so far no.1 the tyrant in sunny's first nightmare and no.2 the terror in nephis's first nightmare. this is a trend we see with the higher ranks as well though not so drastically many beasts, lots of monsters, a good bit of demons, some devils, a couple of tyrants. very few terrors, and maybe a tyrant. as for the second point the cores pretty much mean nothing as sunny as an ascended tyrant still struggles against normal ascended humans at times -super minor spoiler- that didn't change when he became a terror and likely won't change at titan -super minor spoiler ended- the three major factors for his power have always been his rank, abilities, and skill the cores only real uses are the additional shadow and a place to store one of his Shadowspawn (which we don't even actually know if that is how that works as sunny never tested it).

Charybdis- the ancient greek sea monster. it was known to a great and truly massive beast that would consume ships and their crew by opening its massive maw to create a whirlpool. it was told to work in tandem with scylla whose many heads were said to strike from above on the nearby cliffs

with the sentence mostly using words that indicate a singular focus I'd wager the original post has it right, but if it was set up with more plural words adding the s to the end of mind would be better

yeah cause everyone knows how easy it is to reach the ocean floor thats why even in modern times you need very specialized equipment to go even a few hundred meters down... ya know because its super simple.

more like because he was never a compassionate person to begin with

that is not bullying that is called racketeering

there are a total of 5 responses actually. there are five Fs for fear responses, but they all boil down to fighting, fleeing, freezing, fawning (complying), and flopping (full mental or physical shutdown)

seriously. they literally pulled him out of a charnel house of hellion and higher level monsters and the common preconceptions of rifts is that all monsters will work together to fight for the guardian so based on what they know he killed his way through all of those monsters as a walker and now he's a full drifter.

definitely the most important information north has received in his (admittedly short) time as walker/drifter as this means he can pick up more non-combat talents without the need to sacrifice his survivability nor does he need to worry about investing in a talent and having to swap it out later because he's out of slots as long as he makes it to the next level all his investments become permanent.

that is entirely incorrect Rae's first learned skill was lacerate which she learned from a 3rd or 4th year warrior. there is a chance the tree golems aren't even her second skill as it was never confirmed whether or not she learned bleed from the druid or if she failed to learn it fast enough.

see that actually doesn't matter. even if Rae was twice as stealthy as the students the point here is not how good they are, but the fact that they are capable of decent stealth abilities that use methods seperate from the method Rae uses now. the reason this matters is layered skills. the assassins silent steps don't suddenly become less effective because they start wearing less noisy shoes nor does their ability to camouflage their skin/outfit lessen the effectiveness of having a second layer of magic shadows that can lessen both thermal and other alt sight abilities effectiveness against them. all these do is compliment eachother not compete against eachother.

couldn't agree more

oh and as for the introvert bit we've seen him interact with people before and he wasn't bothered by almost any social interaction where the other person wasn't definitively more powerful than him and intending to wield that against him.

what part of pressing someone into the mud is more respectful than opening an interaction with a hello. as for caution I agree he should have been cautious, but cautious isn't a blitz attack its speaking from a distance. if she'd been even near the prowess her level made her out to be jay'd be filling in for all the bones he put into the river as food for the carnivorous fish.

arachne isn't actually a god she was a monster made from a woman similarly to the lamia. arachne's story basically boils down to one of two scenarios. 1 she brags or is bragged about being the greatest weaver in existence, athena hearing this challenges her, and finally when athena beats her arachne doesn't take it well so athena punishes her by making her the first spider. 2 is the same except arachne truly is superior to athena and athena is the one that throws a tantrum ultimately turning arachne into the first spider again. the story's only variant is in who was truly the greater weaver, but arachne was always just a mortal woman as that was the issue the gods had with her (a mortal claiming or being hailed as superior to the gods). in some stories she becomes immortal in the same way other monsters are immortal in that when they die they are only killed temporarily, but she never becomes a god.