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.

true

that is a very generous interpretation of what the humanoid figure looks like, but if the bear was also slightly deformed then yeah I guess it could be mistaken for that if the lights were very dim.

owlbears? since when is an owlbear a humanoid creature?

getting some real "people die when they are killed" levels of stupid in this chapter

why he's literally been going around letting anyone and everyone know exactly who he was and he has dealt with far more powerful organizations than these people without a mask and those organizations were far more likely to be in a position to influence his daily life

taikonaut is actually the Chinese version of an astronauts so he actually did know the word

well it certainly counts for more than telling her you killed her, but considering anake's fate and both hers and yours reactions not by much.

likely the same way he remembers the past that is his future. the sin of solace. remember he was said to be almost sane despite the defilement which sunny stated was likely due to the sin of solace weaponizing a fraction of his brain against the rest of it thus driving the sane insane and the insane towards sanity.

well they were a divine terror so that makes sense

or a smuggler's box

there are two flaws with that thought. 1 remember his shadow fragments reset aftereach core is filled and 2 he can't gain shadow fragments from weaker creatures so only a corrupted/transcendent or higher creature would give him a fragment after his descent to corrupted. that being said he could still be a fully saturated titan, but he could also have 1/7000 as well.

lol definitely