It would actually take considerable effort to lose to jack and also not get to be top 5, that's why I said "practically guaranteed". Meaning a simple cruise playthrough wouldn't get to succeed.
The game hasn't actually shown a challenge of the sort I'm looking for yet. I'm hopeful against final fight Jack, but let's not pretend Anon hasn't been actively avoiding placing players in undesirable spots (For example, Retconning Brass Tiger on the spot to be a water clone if you attack him and not have him annihilate you)
It's understandable because I imagine writing fights isn't fun at all so why even bother with optional ones, but it does make me feel like all the potential power ups in the game are just there for the sake of being there. (I'm mainly looking for a chance of defeating Jade dragon tier opponents as normal MC right now)

Regardless, this is still a game balanced around Normal MC, not Mortal Limits MC or JDF MC.
If you're looking for Dark Souls levels of punishment for making a slight mistake, you gotta look elsewhere.
Best keep dreaming then, because a real JDF is above Normal MC, and you're getting clapped if you even try.(I'm mainly looking for a chance of defeating Jade dragon tier opponents as normal MC right now)
Eldra is an unfair example to use, but... You ain't beating Eldra at all. Not even as a JDF right now. Maybe by Book 4-5 you can try, but... It ain't ending well for you.
You remember the Steel Thread Alliance? Remember how you basically roll them over if you attack them during the Dragon Trial? It's going to be the same.I guess. But every fight doesn't have to be Jack level of difficulty or epicness. It just seems like something which should naturally happen in the story especially since we know there are people with Gate foundations in the trials already.
Besides they can't be that much of a bum that they can't put up atleast some form of resistance inside a gate with their fuel foundations.
Goro can pay them all the money in the world, and they still probably won't take it.You clearly haven't read any cultivation stories before if you think that's gonna stop them.(I think Anon said that AC isn't exactly based on cultivation genre but it's quite common for nobodies to fight mcs in it and act like portable loot dispensers for him)
Also Goro can simply pay them to fight us and they would agree thinking they have a chance inside a gate. So it could definitely happen regardless.
The showing MC and Jack did during the Dragon Trial is the current show topper of the trials. They raised the bar for everyone. Those trial-goers with fuel foundations of their own know their limits; they see how far MC went above them.
If they try with MC, they know they're going to get clapped at the least... They're going to die at worst.
The fuel foundation is a trash foundation to begin with; MC's was really the best version of it. Everyone else has an even worse version.
Doesn't matter if you've read cultivation stories, bruh; they still have self-preservation instincts.
Keiko kept it on the downlow.Is it common knowledge our fuel foundation is gone currently?![]()




