Joe had been demoted.

Ever since he inserted that OP NPC on the game, the “Demon Dragon King”, his job hung by a tread.

Initially he thought that Marcus would use the NPC to defeat Jack - NPC faces against ultimate MOB, both kill each other, end of story - until later, when the Admins would call him and ask about the “Change the Balance of the World” thing.

At the time, with the popularity of Marcus’s channel, he would be needed as the one who created the NPC’s code - even if it was just to explain it to his replacement, it would still be worth it - there were rivals of Squeam popping all over the world recently, and as long as his NPC was a huge hit, he could find a better job.

However, the Goblin Emperor didn’t do that. Instead, he kept the big NPC stored for later, and his whole plan was a fiasco.

Now, his job was to simply keep tabs on Jack - “since you showed so much interest on him, why don’t you see what he does every day and write reports about it?”.

Not only did he had to watch over what the bitter husband of the target of his affection did, he also had to write reports on it and also had his pay cut in half - since Jack only worked half-time, then he as well became a part-timer.

The day couldn’t get any worse - except that things can always get worse.

To his displeasure, Jack began to build an island for himself. The Admins wanted to have him do that for a long time already - since that would change many things in the world - but he never did.

- Damn stupid mongrel…

Joe watched as Jack created way more havoc than he needed to. Why use water breath when he could just kill some monsters and put points on his Water Magic skill tree - and then use that to create water? He even had a 10x exp gathering effect due to his racial traits! Why use his lava breath so recklessly? If he dove downwards and reached the bottom of the sea, he could then melt the rock and pour the lava on top of that, assuring that his island would remain stable!

Joes’ head hurt. Jacks’ inability and clumsiness made him question himself again - why is a girl like Elicia attracted by a guy like this idiot?

Then, after a few gruesome hours, Jack finished what he expected to do.

After adding four more lava pillars and reinforcing the overall structure of his island, he then flew around getting boulders and rocks of various sizes - which he used to try and put some weight on the whole reinforced structure.

Since his lava breath had been cooled by iced water, it was mostly pumice, with only the center of each pillar being made of hard rock.

So, Jack had to painstakingly carry boulders and drop them on top of his island to weight the whole structure down, making it finally touch the seabed and become stable - or, at least stable enough to withstand a calm sea.

The good point of all of this, however, was that he eventually brought quite an amount of vegetation, fungi and other such things with him.

This way, his island slowly began to be colonized by small lifeforms.