lol, this shadow slave settup for not needing the one resource everyone needs to get stronger.

as the author, you might need to be more deliberate in how you convey that fact, I don't really care too much as I get the idea... But, North should have easily gained those extra fragments at this point in time, even trecking through the jungle would have added to the count based on the way you've laid out how he gains them and from what. Enough people in the comments have expressed the same or similar sentiments, though a few did forget he invested in the clone ability, it is kinda frustrating that an extra day or 2 could have completed the 1000/1000 completionist goal, and additionally strengthened him for a boss battle.

bro has items to mitigate fear. why the fear is making him feel that way is a mystery all on its own

Anime reference. probably.

had those vibes the moment the Academy appeared and the few unique looking girls appeared and the "call to the rift" which is the same vibe as nightmares call.

aim the rock and imagine your aiming everywhere except the place you intend to hit. should it not hit that?

I swear item types, the gave system style, weapons and their descriptions within rifts and even the call of the rifts, as well as names or terms similarities, plot progression and a mix of character building arcs minus some specific personality traits, though missing Neph and Cassie, this really scream out Shadow Slave to me, as a reader, It's a little too similar, but I'm not against it if the author can change it up later on, but for now that's the vibe I'm getting,

I just remembered he spent them.

hey, if fatigue from the clone is shared, what about having it sleep? will he feel well rested?

the fact is, only in fiction do I feel the same.

summer means expensive, winter means cheap due to seasonal harvest and export prices from external sources.

vaguely familiar vibe to the Meng/Fang Hao's vow to kill all the fish in the mountain and seas.

Thank God the powers of Mikey have lessened over the year... Abs are good.

no no, we are be multicultural today, Mt Everest is a good choice. heck, why not Mt Cook(nz) or K2?

when splitting his embryo before birth, a transmigrator got their personality wiped out by the emperors processing of his power into 9 parts(?) but the memories were not lost. these memories contained knowledge of future events and its not clear if it was transmogration with the person having read the book or a person from the future.

the embryo, the fetus basically of Ansel is partially a magic or alchemical splitting or division of power and literal sections of Ansel's very being. The emperial bloodline has a power to cleanse literal madness out of the bloodline of the Hydral decendants, but to make it easier on themselves and likely to weaken the Hydral lineage, they made them become assentually alphas of their own pack, and the rest if their original birthright and power is split off at birth and used as an infusion power that can be bestowed upon another individual. my guess is that he will have direct control or some form of influence over their pack memeners actions, thoughts and likely their free will being subjected to his whims, but it requires their free will to join the pack presumably. Back to what was being explained here, Long story short, some poor girl was transmigrated into Ansel as he was being blasted by the emperial family to split his power up, and it appears she either read the story and knows of the future events, reincarnated as Ansel, but his original personality was to dominant that amidst what I'm gonna call recasting and forging of Ansels literal embryonic form, the transmigrators' soul or personality were crushed by the emperial family, scattered and/or had her* memories transfered without persona.

Loyd?

I was proven wrong here.